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“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.”

“A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.”

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Book:Underworld: A Novel

Source: Underworld: A Novel

“Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.”

Ifs Has Beens Real Done Known Events Photography Conscience Concerned Photograph Exposure

Author:Susan Sontag

“I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.”

War Might Events News Photographer Photograph Coverage Indictment

Book:W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes

Source: W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes

“If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.”

Ifs Humans Persons Hands Fall Space Streets Effects Events Figures Building Ready Walking Happenings Cameras Photograph Fallen Theme Loaded Photojournalism

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.”

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Author:Phil Collen

“Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.”

Ifs Enough Action Loses Events Perspective Scene Add Photograph Good Enough Adopted Retrospect

Author:Micha Bar-Am

“Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.”

Looks May Events Calling Window Photograph Memoir Construction Composition Deliberate Casual Selective Summary

Author:William Zinsser

“The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.”

Thinking Events Civilization Argument Photograph Description Accustomed

Author:Umberto Eco

“Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.”

World Feels Should Character Turns Easy Interesting Situation Moral Events Cameras Photograph Intervention Moral Character

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.”

Ifs World Common Millions Events Strange Property Photograph Disaster Odd Peculiar Exotic Unfamiliar Momentary

Author:Beaumont Newhall

“My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.”

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Book:Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969

Source: Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969

“Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.”

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Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.”