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“When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.”

Quote by Barbara Ess

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Born in 1948, Barbara Ess is an accomplished musical artist known for her exploratory and innovative career. She is renowned for her unique musical style and profound understanding of musical art. more

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“Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.”

World Wanted Artist My Own Interesting Situation Saws Perception Surface

Book:Collaborative works with children 1969-1999

Source: Collaborative works with children 1969-1999

“Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.”

Thinking Needs Sometimes Order Teacher Disguise

Author:Wendy Ewald

“I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.”

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Book:Collaborative works with children 1969-1999

Source: Collaborative works with children 1969-1999

“The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.”

Years Ideas Artist Voice Happened Creatures Years Ago Optimistic Thirty Solitary Thirty Years

Author:Wendy Ewald

“I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo.”

People Thinking Humans Looks Made War Moments Might Mistake Taken Stupid Reader Battle Scared Confused Courageous Combat Confusing Moment Of Truth

Author:Horst Faas

“To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.”

Feels Humans Looks Doe Matter Faces Mother Lost Hours Half Gone Forever Changed Expression Baby Arms No Matter What Prisoner Mechanism Captured Half Hours Best Picture Dead Baby

Author:Horst Faas

“I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Looks Heart Stories Faces Term Expression Battle Prove Hundred Cameras Strategy Photograph Vietnam Civilians Casualties

Author:Horst Faas

“In my work, the information is the least important part. It's there, and the work wouldn't mean the same thing without it, but it isn't structured around the information. The most interesting part to me is the visual play... looking at this little universe of representation that I can make out of the world.”

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Author:Judy Fiskin

“For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.”

Book:Judy Fiskin

Source: Judy Fiskin

“I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't full of detail. If you think house, you're going to get something very general... Dropping detail made the photographs more general, like mental images.”

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Book:Judy Fiskin

Source: Judy Fiskin