“This divining is a wondrous thing. Because it does not stop, we must now take it a step further: just as the thoughtful viewing of a photograph can help us to understand its maker, the conscientious making of photographs can help one know - and even to create - one’s self.”
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
“Similarly, we are thinking with and through the camera. This gets back to something I mentioned earlier: real in-the-moment thinking (and not the illustration of previous thoughts) happens when the impetus to the picture and the picture itself are one and the same. It’s not about what the photographer knows, but what she can make.”
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
“While we can’t arrange the world with a camera, we have the ability to create significant associations between the things of the world and time in the photograph, and these purely pictorial correlations can help us to manifest and understand their ineffable counterparts of the within and the without.
The camera is all about creating relationships that are unreal (in that they never existed in the world) among things that are absolutely and recalcitrantly real. In fact that all it can do.”
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
The camera is all about creating relationships that are unreal (in that they never existed in the world) among things that are absolutely and recalcitrantly real. In fact that all it can do.”
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
“The limitations we sense in the photograph - of the actual and of time - are felt keenly by those who use a camera, in ways that are simply not realized by the painter or the poet or anyone else. Strangely, we can never seem to get enough of these particular limitations.”
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
“Technical choices must be made with great care for your pictures, but even more importantly with the utmost respect for your separate self and your intelligence and the contents of your heart (which are - or should be - basically the same thing as your photographs).”
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
― To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
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