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Quote by Joel Meyerowitz

“We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.”

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Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz, born on March 6, 1938, is a renowned American photographer known for his ability to capture the beauty and emotion in everyday life, particularly in his street photography work in New York City. more

“I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildings and trees and air - but that's not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.”

Thinking Enough Feelings Energy Rooms Risk Air Tree Building Discovery Stones Empty Photographer Photograph Accounting

Book:Creating a sense of place

Source: Creating a sense of place

“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.”

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Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.”

Feelings Photographer Statements

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.”

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