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Gilles Peress

Gilles Peress Biography

Photographer

Gilles Peress, born on December 29, 1946, is a renowned photographer known for his profound documentation of conflict and human suffering.

Gilles Peress, born on December 29, 1946, is a renowned photographer known for his profound documentation of conflict and human suffering.

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“I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.”

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“We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.”

Mean Age Language Audience Democratic Photographer Dialogue Defined Visuals Interpretation Entering

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“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.”

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“I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to you that you can derive ideas without going through words. So I'm forcing you to really look. And this process of looking, it's like a new set of ideas that are being proposed to you.”

Looks Ideas Language Process Photography

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“[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?”

World Stills Reality Space Photograph Surface Our Thoughts Places In The World

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“I don't trust words. I trust pictures.”

Inspirational Photography Photographer Photograph Don't Trust Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography

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“I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.”

Care Photography Evidence Don't Care I Don't Care Gathering Good Photography

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“Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.”

Reality Language Photography Available

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About the Author

Born: December 29, 1946
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 8

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