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“I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.”

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Burk Uzzle

Burk Uzzle, born in 1938, is an artist whose profession is unknown. His life experience and artistic achievements have not been detailed. more

“After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.”

World Way Trying Years Looks Form Streets This World Decided Philosophical Photographer Curious Wander Artistic Journalist Contradiction Screwed Up Wandering Around

Author:Burk Uzzle

“As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.”

Want Photographer

Author:Massimo Vitali

“Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.”

Thousand Photography Rivers Streams

Author:Massimo Vitali

“I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.”

Thinking Art Artist Secret Wonder Hell Ought Art Is Photographer Not Sure

Author:Todd Walker

“Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.”

Film Photography Cameras Forgiving Mediums

Author:Todd Walker

“I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.”

Desire Awareness Photography Machines Cameras Slave Conquer

Author:Todd Walker

“Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.”

People Way Kind Littles Two Able Streets Percent Cameras Reactions Throwing Two Ways Gems Grabbing Portraiture Fluency Two Way Street

Author:Albert Watson

“Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.”

Knows Should Photographer

Author:Albert Watson

“I taught myself to use a camera - it's not very difficult to use a camera, but I never bothered looking at any textbooks on how to make a picture. I had a much more casual relation to it. For me at the time it was much more about the process rather than the results.”

Use Process Difficult Results Taught Relation Cameras Casual Bothered Textbooks

Author:Gillian Wearing

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