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“It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.”

Quote by Tod Papageorge

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Born on August 1, 1940, Tod Papageorge is a renowned photographer whose work is known for its unique perspective and profound insights into American society and culture. more

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“[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).”

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“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.”

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“I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.”

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“By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.”

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“Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.”

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“You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.”

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“So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.”

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“You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.”

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“I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.”

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