Joel Meyerowitz Quotes

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• I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there…
• 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 these…
• We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are…
• I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones…
• I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer…
• Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.
• Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I…
• They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take…
• 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 something…
• I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait…
• You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is…
• Photography is about being exquisitely present.
• I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great…
• One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in…

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