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 core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want the world to mean. — 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
