Cameras Quote by Ray Metzker

“The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.” quote by Ray Metzker — Download Open image

“The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.”

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I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to…

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What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet…

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I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations… I have always…

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I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp…

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Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

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A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation… You have…

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Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but in the…

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“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or…

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Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that…

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