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W. Eugene Smith

Nick — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:00:15 +0000

“Available light is any damn light that is available!”
~ W. Eugene Smith

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Joel Meyerowitz

Nick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:22 +0000

“I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it–stones and buildings and trees and air–but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”
~ Joel Meyerowitz

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Richard Avedon

Nick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:08 +0000

“My photographs don’t go below the surface. They don’t go below anything. They’re readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I’ve lost what’s really there…been seduced by someone else’s standard of beauty or by the sitter’s own idea of the best in him. That’s not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.”
~ Richard Avedon

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Joe McNally

Nick — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:43 +0000

“Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.”
~ Joe McNally

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Sebastião Salgado

Nick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:00:23 +0000

“Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It’s relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.”
~ Sebastião Salgado

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Nick — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:00:24 +0000

“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

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David Hockney

Nick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:37 +0000

“I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with photography. It’s a one-eyed man looking through a little ‘ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?”
~ David Hockney

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Marc Riboud

Nick — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:43 +0000

“The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world. This cannot allow any judgement, even if the sum of these details may convey a point of view.”
~ Marc Riboud

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Edward Steichen

Nick — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:00:58 +0000

“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
~ Edward Steichen

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Stephen Shore

Nick — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:00:05 +0000

“There a number of photographers who are fabulous photographers and they switch to digital and they produce a lot of crap. somehow it affects their discrimination. Somehow this knowledge that it’s immaterial, that it’s free, is sort of the opposite of the $15 a shot discipline. It somehow affects how some people use it. I don’t think it’s inherent in the medium that it affects people that way, but what I’m saying is, there’s no reason a photographer can’t make every picture count.”
~ Stephen Shore

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