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“I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.”

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Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek was a renowned Czech photographer known for his unique photographic style and masterful use of light and shadow. His work spans a wide range of genres from landscape to abstract photography, earning him acclaim in the art and photography communities. more

“...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time. It's so much about failure, it's so much about making pictures that are so utterly boring and overstated, you're endlessly disappointed. And in that process you hopefully find something that draws you back and calls to you.”

Ifs Knows I Can Process Can Do Half Teach Draws Boring Hopefully Disappointed

Author:Larry Sultan

“I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.”

Looks Real Found Photograph Hybrid Synthetic

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“...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge.”

Thinking Matter Form Challenges Rooms Subjects Wall Findings Ordinary Dramatic Composition Lighting Subject Matter Off The Wall

Author:Larry Sultan

“Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.”

Thinking Giving Moments Reality Literature Interesting Fiction Photography Wings Following Observation Description That Moment Let It Go Staging

Author:Larry Sultan

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