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Andy Goldsworthy, born on July 26, 1956, is a renowned British photographer. His works are inspired by nature and capture the beauty of landscapes through unique perspectives and techniques, earning him the title of 'earth artist'. Goldsworthy's art often involves creating outdoors, using natural materials to produce works that have a strong visual impact and artistic appeal.

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“I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.”

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“Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.”

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Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.”

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“The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.”

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“I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.”

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“I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.”

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“Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.”

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“Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.”

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“The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.”

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“At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.”

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“I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.”

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Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

About the Author

Born: July 26, 1956
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 111

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