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. ...… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the… — 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
