Aaron Siskind Quotes

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• 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 world…
• However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the…
• The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
• I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon…
• What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants…
• 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…
• 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,…
• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference…
• 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…
• 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…
• If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
• I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature…
• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions…
• As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch…
• We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we…
• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after…

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