"The business of making a photograph may be……" — Aaron Siskind
"The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together."
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17 Quotes by Aaron Siskind
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When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition…
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However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and…
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The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
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I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken…
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What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images…
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Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then…
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you…
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As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the…
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To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the…
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If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per…
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