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Sylvia Plachy

(1943) Photographer

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Sylvia Plachy is a photographer.

Quick Facts About Sylvia Plachy

Born: May 24, 1943
Profession: Photographer

About Sylvia Plachy

[Wikidata] Hungarian-American photographer (born 1943)... | [Wikipedia] Sylvia Plachy is a Hungarian-American photographer. Plachy's work has been featured in many New York City magazines and newspapers and she "was an influential staff photographer for The Village Voice."

Quotes by Sylvia Plachy

Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two.

Bounty

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As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by…

Cameras

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You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light…

Chance

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Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

Dream

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What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are…

Awake

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The work of the artist is not so much what you say or what you know, it's recognizing what you know. That's…

Art

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