“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
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Posted 27 November 2007
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“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.”
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Posted 15 November 2007
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“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”
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Posted 07 November 2007
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“The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.”
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Posted 29 October 2007
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“A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.”
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Posted 18 October 2007
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Do not call yourself an “artist-photographer” and make “artist-painters” and “artist-sculptors” laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Este cita de Emerson podría colgar en un enorme luminoso a la entrada de Art Forum, como un constante recordatorio: o mejor aún, podríamos convencer a un avispado galerista de […]
‘A photographer’s main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.’ (Manuel Álvarez Bravo)
And nowadays they proliferate. And I simply don’t get it. Of course you’re constantly and unconsciously influenced (we are all […]
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
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Posted 24 September 2007
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-Photography- “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
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Posted 08 August 2007
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“Photograph is a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.”
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Posted 01 August 2007
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