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“On my first road trip after the pandemic, I had a nervous breakdown. I felt like I'd forgotten how to take pictures. To calm myself, I'd reread the advice Allen Ginsberg gave to students in the photography workshop he ran with Robert Frank:
Ordinary mind
Includes eternal perceptions.
Observe what's vivid.
Notice what you notice.
Catch yourself thinking.
Vividness is self-selecting.
Frist thought, best thought.
Subject is known by what she sees.
Others can measure their vision by what we see.
Candor ends paranoia.”
Alec Soth, A Pound of Pictures
“We all confront the parameters of our cage eventually. What we do when we reach those bars helps define us.”
Alec Soth, The Parameters of Our Cage
“- Picture yourself on a surfboard. Once you find your balance, loosen your grip. Breathe. Accept that no matter how good you think you are, you will fall. Again and again.
- We take pictures not only to see, but to be seen; not only to remember, but to be remembered. But when you are surfing, it's best to forget about the people on the beach.”
Alec Soth, A Pound of Pictures
“When burdened by the feeling that there are too many photographs in the world, I ask myself if there are too many flowers.”
Alec Soth, A Pound of Pictures

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