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Quote by Keith Carter

“I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.”

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Keith Carter, born in 1948, is a renowned American photographer known for his unique perspective and profound insight into the culture of the American South. more

“Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.”

Thinking Want Giving Kind Happens Life Is Dark My Own Photography Give Me Mortality Things In Life License My Own Life Dark Things

Author:Keith Carter

“You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.”

Ifs Two Creative Lucky Photography Epiphany

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“I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels I Can Dream Photography Wildest Dreams

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“How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.”

World Way Trying Kind Matter Alive Subjects This World Photography Extraordinary Subject Matter

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“I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.”

Want Made Photography Gigs Better Person

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“The world makes up my pictures, not me.”

World Photography

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“... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.”

Said Tree Information Photography Photograph Forests Remarkable Loaded

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