“[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.” EnergyMeditationTaughtCamerasPhotographerReverenceImmediacyDecisiveness Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.” IfsWayGivingLooksWholeMomentsEyeFacesRealizingPiecesFrontsTearsHappeningsShadowBreathsCamerasPhotographerDisappearRemarkableSplitsRescue Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer possibilities to be more than they are a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer’s experience.” ImportantBeautifulPossibilityObjectsProduceOffersCamerasResponsePhotographerPhotographDetailsIntuitionClaritySpiteInherent Author:Joel Meyerowitz