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
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 Image
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 Image
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures. — 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 to make… — 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 might discover… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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