"Photography is about being exquisitely present." — Joel Meyerowitz
"Photography is about being exquisitely present."
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Joel Meyerowitz
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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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I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that…
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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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I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some…
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