“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.” PeopleReasonHandsActorsFoundDifficultTalkingPhotographyFunctionCamerasWitnessShySubstitutes Author:Martine Franck
“Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the way, while we've been talking I've now seen a total of three people I know walking on 8th street.” PeopleKnowsWayThreeTalkingStreetsWalkingPhotographyPolaroids Author:Laurel Nakadate
“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.” FirstsIdeasWholeTermTalkingTakenListeningSceneConversationProjectsPhotographyPhotographerPreparationInterviewsExcessDocumentsFormalExaminationCasualTalking And Listening Book:Harlem photographs, 1932-1940 Source: Harlem photographs, 1932-1940