“I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.” ThinkingTryingDifficultRichTruth IsPhotographerPhenomenonLayers Author:Sally Mann
“Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.” IfsKindWould BeInformationEmotionalPhotographyPhotographerPhotographPoundsDocumentariesHaikuDocumentary Photography Author:Sally Mann
“There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.” IfsThinkingWritingWellsSaidEnoughBreakFemaleAgreePhotographerSweatBreak OutWriting WellBest PictureFemale Writers Author:Sally Mann
“All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.” MindNextImpossiblePhotographer Author:Sally Mann
“There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each picture is better than the next, and then you sort of level off and that's when you realize that it's not that each picture is better then the next, it's that each picture up's the ante. And that every time you take one good picture, the next one has got to be better.” CertainNextRealizingLevelsSeriesPhotographerThe Next One Author:Sally Mann
“[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.” EnergyMeditationTaughtCamerasPhotographerReverenceImmediacyDecisiveness Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'” MomentsConsciousnessPurePhotographerWowAstonishmentInhale Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.” IfsWayGivingLooksWholeMomentsEyeFacesRealizingPiecesFrontsTearsHappeningsShadowBreathsCamerasPhotographerDisappearRemarkableSplitsRescue Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.” ActingPhotographerPhotographRecognitionEquipmentInstantaneous Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.” WayMomentsBeautifulToughInstinctPhotographerGutsUncompromising Author:Joel Meyerowitz