What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and,… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle,… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers,… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right.… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
