I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document;… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing. — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross). — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
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