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“I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.”

Quote by Pedro Meyer

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Pedro Meyer, born on October 6, 1935, is a renowned photographer whose work is known for its unique perspective and profound insight into social issues. more

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“The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to the left or to the right or above or below the frame. Oftentimes, it doesn't even explain to you what is going on inside the frame.”

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“The digital tools allow us to have control over what and how we can alter an image that was unimaginable in the era of analog photography.”

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Book:The Real and the True: The Digital Photography of Pedro Meyer

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“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.”

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“[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.”

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“I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.”

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“The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instant? And, Could we really make it live as art? There was an almost moral dimension.”

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“After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.”

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“My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.”

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“A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.”

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“... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and engaging medium today - one central to the development of cultural dialogue.”

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