Gaps Quote by Stephen Shore

“I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.”

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I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems…

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I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

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I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.

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