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> [Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/producing-a-photographic-document-involves-preparation-in-excess/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

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## More by Aaron Siskind

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/to-me-documentary-photography-means-making-a-picture-so-that-the/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/i-was-given-a-small-camera-as-a-wedding-gift-from-a-very-dear-friend/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/the-only-other-things-i-got-from-the-abstract-expressionists-is-the/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/for-some-reason-or-other-there-was-in-me-the-desire-to-see-the-world/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/i-may-be-wrong-but-the-essential-illustrative-nature-of-most/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/when-i-make-a-photograph-i-want-it-to-be-an-altogether-new-object/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/we-look-at-the-world-and-see-what-we-have-learned-to-believe-is-there/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/as-photographers-we-must-learn-to-relax-our-beliefs-move-on-objects/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-of-touching-of-loving-what-you-have/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/the-only-nature-i-m-interested-in-is-my-own-nature/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [“The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/the-inner-drama-is-the-meaning-of-the-exterior-event/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/producing-a-photographic-document-involves-preparation-in-excess/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-of-touching-of-loving/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/we-look-at-the-world-and-see-what-we-have-learned-to-believe-is-there-2/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

> [What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/what-is-the-subject-matter-of-this-apparently-very-personal-world-it/)

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