“... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.” WellsMomentsChanceAttentionPhotographyMysteriousExistentialSurrealismIntersectionsDecisive Moments Author:Lee Friedlander
“It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.” InterestingPhotographyPhotographMysteriousRelevant Book:On photography Source: On photography
“What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.” MeanLongMadeMovingChoicesStuffPaperPhotographyLong TimePhotographerTechniqueMysteriousHauntingVery DeepDevelopers Author:Diane Arbus
“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.” FactsPhotographyMysterious Author:Garry Winogrand
“Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.” ConsciousnessEnvironmentModernObjectsArmsPhotographyIdealsCamerasPhotographMoodMysteriousCaptured Author:Susan Sontag