You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.
Mediante la fotografÃa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado.
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Isabel Allende
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Susan Sontag
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Susan Sontag
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? Â
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Henri CartierBresson
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
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Susan Meiselas
More Quotes By Joe McNally
I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.
Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas,...
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.
A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a...
