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David Hurn Biography

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David Hurn, born in 1934, is an artist whose identity remains unknown. His life and artistic achievements have not been well-documented.

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“There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.”

Ideas Form Desire Interest Stage Photography Direct Photographer Recorders

Author:David Hurn

“Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.”

Reality Pleasure Wonder Fronts Photography Cameras Surprise Photographer Complexity Unnecessary

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“I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.”

Understanding Results Photography Tools Cameras Photographer Communicate Chosen Understanding Life

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“My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.”

Ifs Teach Advice Photography Curiosity Photographer Bother Exaggerated

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“This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And it's true. If you watch a photographer of merit working an event he/she does not look like an amateur.”

Ifs Looks Doe Ideas Action Watches Events Photography Photographer Mediums Merit Seconds

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“...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.”

Feels Looks Wanted Simple Teacher One Day Photography Decided Photographer

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“I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time the pictures were made. That's all that any photographer can claim. I do not know any great photographer who would presume otherwise.”

Knows Made Felt Saws Subjects Photography Claims Photographer Photograph

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“I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.”

Thinking Eye Events Honesty Photography Accounts Photographer Witness Subjectivity Connotation

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“You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.”

Photography Photographer

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“Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.”

Offers Photography

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“The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.”

Moments Results Conditions Particular Photography Photograph Destination Moments In Time Transmit

Author:David Hurn

“In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.”

Men World Should Humans Art Real Age Form Used Purpose Given Conditions Skills Photography Ideals Photographer Greek Fulfilled Improving

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“It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.”

World Should Happens Purpose Understanding Goal Results Expression Photography Strive Photographer Photograph Obsessed Purpose Of Life Makers Strife Stretching

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“These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them”

Two Photographer Command Timing Extensions

Author:David Hurn

“The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.”

Ends Reason Passion Results Issues Photography Tools Fundamentals Photographer Vehicle Emphasis End Results

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“The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.”

Important Pieces Cameras Shoes Pairs Equipment Pair Of Shoes

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“For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.”

Knows Want Photography Excuse

Author:David Hurn

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Born: 1934
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Quotes: 17

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