"I find it strangely beautiful that the camera……" — Joel Meyerowitz
"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 possibilities to be more than they are a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer’s experience."
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14 Quotes by Joel Meyerowitz
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I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it…
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Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there.…
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We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures…
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I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of…
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Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.
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Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later…
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They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you…
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It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t…
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I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres,…
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You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in…
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Photography is about being exquisitely present.
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I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some…
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