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Ari Marcopoulos Biography

Filmmaker

Ari Marcopoulos, born in 1957, is a renowned filmmaker known for his unique visual style and profound insight into contemporary culture.

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“In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.”

Bigs Cities New York Corners Newspapers Headlines Holland

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.”

Art Wanted Certain Literature Influence Bigger Familiar Openness Stale Holland Good Influences

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.”

People Way Country Might Surprise Conservative Holland Small Countries

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.”

People Trying Years Dream Bigs Age New York Building Months Six Decided Moved California American Dream Six Months Swarms Living The American Dream

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“A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.”

Happens Realizing Circumstances Accidents Slips Presenting

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“I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.”

People Ifs Persons Car Curiosity Curious Charmed

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“I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .”

People Thinking Known Elements Landscape Portraits

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“My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.”

People Feels Photography Concern

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“I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.”

Ifs Seems Lazy

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“I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has that taste of the faraway or undiscovered place. But my anthropology has more to do with what's in my reach.”

Thinking Feels Term Taste Anthropology Exotic Kinship Ethnography

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“Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.”

People Thinking Looks Ideas Sometimes Done My Family

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“As my sons went into teenagehood, they started to look like some of the groups of people that I had photographed previously. They started to become like my old subjects. As if, as a photographer, you come around to the same visual points.”

People Ifs Looks Groups Subjects Son Photographer Visuals My Son

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“I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.”

People Way My Own Solitary

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“When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take a picture of!" That's almost a sure sign that you shouldn't do it.”

People Looks Facts Photographer

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country. There isn't much flexibility in changing people's perspectives.”

People Way Country Might Perspective Surprise Conservative Flexibility Holland Small Countries

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“Dates can be important. It's a nice way to remember when I took the photo without having to rack my brain or look in the archives. It also makes every photo important, because there is the date. I can take a picture of nothing, but at least we know when I took it.”

Important Remember Brain Nice Remember When

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“I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.”

Thinking Book Film

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“I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.”

Culture Youth Excited

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“The place where I am is always my favorite place.”

My Favorite

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About the Author

Born: 1957
Known for: Filmmaker
Quotes: 19

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