I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography]… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you might discover… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share
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