"The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the……" — Walker Evans
"The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary."
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26 Quotes by Walker Evans
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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by…
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Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography…
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Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the…
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It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has…
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
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Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty
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What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is…
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Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate…
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I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't…
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