Documentary Photography Quotes by Aaron Siskind

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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…
• However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I…
• 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…
• What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld…
• The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent…
• Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits…
• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it.…
• As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks…
• To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At…
• 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.

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