Home / Quotes / Quote by Joel Meyerowitz

Quote by Joel Meyerowitz

“I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.”

Quote by Joel Meyerowitz

Author

Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz, born on March 6, 1938, is a renowned American photographer known for his ability to capture the beauty and emotion in everyday life, particularly in his street photography work in New York City. more

You May Also Like

“You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.”

World Looks Littles Real Moving Connections Photograph Real World Stillness Astonishing Collision Humming

Book:Creating a sense of place

Source: Creating a sense of place

“Photography is about being exquisitely present.”

Book:Joel Meyerowitz

Source: Joel Meyerowitz

“Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.”

“States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.”

States Today Form

Book:Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

Source: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

“Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.”

Author:David Graeber

“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”

Ifs Action Acting Direct Insistence Direct Action Acting As If

Author:David Graeber

“In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.”

Values Schemes True Value

Book:Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

Source: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

“Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.”

“The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.”

Thinking Disease Patient Cancer Positively Think Positively Cancer Patients

Book:Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America