"You can't photograph everything."
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"I guess my choice of medium depends on how I want to interpret the idea. Sometimes the interpretation works best in a photograph, and then sometimes it works best in a drawing. But most often times, with the work, everything starts with the diorama with the photograph. Then I'm just filtering out ideas and images from the photograph and reinterpreting them in other mediums."
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"Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide."
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"It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible."
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"We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner."
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"Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand."
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"To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have."
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"The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past."
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"Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty."
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"Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world"
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"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."
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"Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it."
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"A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture"
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"Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything."
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"The camera photographs what's there."
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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."
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"Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas."
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"If they want a photograph, then just take it."
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"We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)"
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"I photograph Nature, which includes human beings."
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