“My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.” WorldMatterImaginationCommonPossibilityArgumentBasesMadPhotographerDearKicksFaculty Author:Tod Papageorge
“I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.” WorldBelieveSpeakProcessFictionTeachPhotographyNew ThingsDocumentsPropositions Author:Tod Papageorge
“If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.” IfsWorldLooksIdeasArtistAcceptingVisionPhotographerDocumentsPersonal Vision Author:Tod Papageorge
