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rainy digestion [deleted]
Posted 19 years ago
I was looking at someone's profile today and found some quotes from photographers:
"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry,
listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
Walker Evans
"You can't photograph if you're not in love."
W. Eugene Smith
Smith apparently told this to a student who had shown him her portfolio. Smith was patient, looked through it, and then asked the photographer if she was love. She said no, leading to the remark.
Everyone knows the Capa quote:
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."
Cartier-Bresson said a lot (wish I could remember the link to the transcript of his television interview), including this:
“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
More from him here.
Can anyone think of any other remarks uttered by photographers? Or interesting anecdotes?
Does everyone know the story revolving around this quote:
"...only 11 of the negatives survived. An overly eager darkroom assistant [...] turned up the heat on the drying cabinet and it melted most of the negatives."
Hope this is of interest to the group. Delete if it isn't.
"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry,
listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
Walker Evans
"You can't photograph if you're not in love."
W. Eugene Smith
Smith apparently told this to a student who had shown him her portfolio. Smith was patient, looked through it, and then asked the photographer if she was love. She said no, leading to the remark.
Everyone knows the Capa quote:
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."
Cartier-Bresson said a lot (wish I could remember the link to the transcript of his television interview), including this:
“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
More from him here.
Can anyone think of any other remarks uttered by photographers? Or interesting anecdotes?
Does everyone know the story revolving around this quote:
"...only 11 of the negatives survived. An overly eager darkroom assistant [...] turned up the heat on the drying cabinet and it melted most of the negatives."
Hope this is of interest to the group. Delete if it isn't.
lance36y
Posted 19 years ago
I heard something atributed to Capa on what the secret to his technique on D-Day was: "f.8, and be there."
benroberts
Posted 19 years ago
'crap, shit, rubbish, oh dear god, pitiful, AMATEUR!'
hin chua, at least 3 times a week. trust me i've heard it.
hin chua, at least 3 times a week. trust me i've heard it.
rainy digestion [deleted]
Posted 19 years ago
Edited by rainy digestion (member) 19 years ago
The anecdote is from Capa, and relates to his D-Day "shoot".
Capa got the negatives back to London, and the darkroom technician was so excited by what he was seeing that he tried to dry them too quickly, destroying all but eleven of the shots Capa had risked his life to grab.
His memoir, Slightly Out of Focus is a great read.
Capa got the negatives back to London, and the darkroom technician was so excited by what he was seeing that he tried to dry them too quickly, destroying all but eleven of the shots Capa had risked his life to grab.
His memoir, Slightly Out of Focus is a great read.
lanegreene
Posted 19 years ago
Somehow "aperture-priority and be there" doesn't have the same ring.
"Auto-ISO and be there" even less so.
"Auto-ISO and be there" even less so.
RafaAlcacer
Posted 19 years ago
"Jazz is about being in the moment"
Herbie Hancock
(where it says "jazz", put "photography".)
Herbie Hancock
(where it says "jazz", put "photography".)
In Memoriam: Hughes Léglise-Bataille
Posted 19 years ago
I really like the HCB quote "hunters, after all, aren't cooks". That's the problem with digital photography I guess: it's easier to be a cook, now that we have microwave ovens, but despite shooting RAW, it still looks like crisp frozen meat ;-)
toong_bo
Posted 19 years ago
"Photography is made up of life, and yet it's invisible. It's all present, but it's invisible. Only the camera makes it visible." --Joel Meyerowitz
shveckle
Posted 19 years ago
Ahhhhh here is a quote I used to sign my emails with when I was a network support technician. Of course this was only in house.
"A competent system administrator such as yourself
should know that the POSIX 1003.2 and 1003.2a
(and, consequently, Unix 98) Bourne shell standards
are based on the KornShell and that GNU's Bourne-Again
Shell is also based on KornShell."
John Michael Davison
"A competent system administrator such as yourself
should know that the POSIX 1003.2 and 1003.2a
(and, consequently, Unix 98) Bourne shell standards
are based on the KornShell and that GNU's Bourne-Again
Shell is also based on KornShell."
John Michael Davison
martinnicholls
Posted 19 years ago
"I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs."
- Winogrand (again)
- Winogrand (again)
The above is one most lucid explanations on why I take photographs.
~Joe~
Posted 19 years ago
this quote brought me the most comfort after continually being surprised by how an image looked in 2D verses what it looked like in 3D.
"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse."
-Diane Arbus
"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse."
-Diane Arbus
~Joe~
Posted 19 years ago
My Favorite Winogrand…..Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed."
I watched him walk a short block and shoot an entire roll without breaking stride. As he reloaded, I asked him if he felt bad about missing pictures when he reloaded. "No," he replied, "there are no pictures when I reload."
---Mason Resnick recounting an encounter with Garry Winogrand
---Mason Resnick recounting an encounter with Garry Winogrand
Adding to the supply of Winogrand quotes:
"All a photograph ever does is describe light on surface; that's all there is, and that's all we ever know about anybody".
A lot of famous photographers seem to be good at talking about pictures (or at least giving good quotes); possibly it's part of the job...
"All a photograph ever does is describe light on surface; that's all there is, and that's all we ever know about anybody".
A lot of famous photographers seem to be good at talking about pictures (or at least giving good quotes); possibly it's part of the job...
absent basin [deleted]
Posted 19 years ago
Edited by absent basin (member) 19 years ago
"I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heart of the known awaits just around the corner." -Alex Webb
"Some pictures are tentative forays without your even knowing it. They become methods. It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again." -Diane Arbus
"It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I’m not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I’d be out shooting all the time. You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you." -Lee Friedlander
"Some pictures are tentative forays without your even knowing it. They become methods. It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again." -Diane Arbus
"It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I’m not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I’d be out shooting all the time. You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you." -Lee Friedlander
colorful form [deleted]
Posted 19 years ago
There are some quotes I always make, dunno if or where I heard/read them, but I use'em... never took the credit for, it's unfair as all about photography, to me, it has been said. But anyway:
"... framing is not about what you put in, but what you keep out."
"Don't look with your eyes, but with your heart. Feel the light, don't just shoot it."
"They're just brushes..." - (about cameras) when someone starts to get too technical on me.
"... framing is not about what you put in, but what you keep out."
"Don't look with your eyes, but with your heart. Feel the light, don't just shoot it."
"They're just brushes..." - (about cameras) when someone starts to get too technical on me.
joostburger
Posted 19 years ago
"Een foto is geen ding, een foto is een idee.."
(a photo is not a thing, a photo is an idea..)
-Hans Aarsman
(a photo is not a thing, a photo is an idea..)
-Hans Aarsman
...only 11 of the negatives survived. An overly eager darkroom assistant [...] turned up the heat on the drying cabinet and it melted most of the negatives."
Yeah, it's what happened to the majority of Capa's D-Day photos. Weird...I just started reading Slightly Out Of Focus. Interesting man...too bad he stepped on a land mine :(
Faust
Yeah, it's what happened to the majority of Capa's D-Day photos. Weird...I just started reading Slightly Out Of Focus. Interesting man...too bad he stepped on a land mine :(
Faust
rainy digestion [deleted]
Posted 19 years ago
Edited by rainy digestion (member) 19 years ago
@faust0matic - yeah, it is a shame. His last shot is interesting because after he took it he decided (apparently) to walk out into the field to get a better shot, closer of the French (?) soldiers who were marching away.
I think it was also one of the first times he was shooting colour and black and white side-by-side, but I don't know if any of the colour stuff survived. I don't think I've ever seen any colour shots attributed to Capa.
Anyway, another quote:
"Although photography generates works that can be called art... photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made. Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac's Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures, and Atget's Paris."
Susan Sontag.
I think it was also one of the first times he was shooting colour and black and white side-by-side, but I don't know if any of the colour stuff survived. I don't think I've ever seen any colour shots attributed to Capa.
Anyway, another quote:
"Although photography generates works that can be called art... photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made. Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac's Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures, and Atget's Paris."
Susan Sontag.
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." - Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Clearly, I'm still WELL within my first 10k ;))
(Clearly, I'm still WELL within my first 10k ;))
lanegreene
Posted 19 years ago
When I saw William Eggleston speak at the premiere of the film about him (Michael Almereyda's "William Eggleston in the Real World"), he was a master of non-answers:
"What kind of film do you use?"
"Oh... any kind."
"What do you think about digital?"
"[long pause] We'll see about that."
"What do you think about New York city?"
"Well... [long pause] It's on the map."
And the one I took away: "You can take a good picture of anything." If he knew some secret of photographic wisdom, he wasn't giving it away.
"What kind of film do you use?"
"Oh... any kind."
"What do you think about digital?"
"[long pause] We'll see about that."
"What do you think about New York city?"
"Well... [long pause] It's on the map."
And the one I took away: "You can take a good picture of anything." If he knew some secret of photographic wisdom, he wasn't giving it away.
guarded ocean [deleted]
Posted 19 years ago
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. -Garry Winogrand
I wonder if he's talking about 'the tilt' or causing a bit of havoc.. (actually ..not sure you can have a bit of havoc). benny- I guess this also means you can't have a bit of bedlam either. hmmm
I wonder if he's talking about 'the tilt' or causing a bit of havoc.. (actually ..not sure you can have a bit of havoc). benny- I guess this also means you can't have a bit of bedlam either. hmmm
"My photographs are the product of a continuing dialog between myself and reality. I focus primarily on human beings in conflict with and in relation to his environment it is my purpose to make permanent , with form and meaning a visual record of certain aspects of American life and culture"- William Gedney
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/
toong_bo
Posted 19 years ago
"I don’t do very much. I see the thing, I feel the thing, I make the thing. That’s all." - Andre Kertesz
onemoreshot
Posted 19 years ago
"To see the world you got to walk around conscious of your 180degree vision." My dad.
rutger spoelstra
Posted 19 years ago
“My photographs are more questions than answers. I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see."
-Trent Parke
(source: in-public)
-Trent Parke
(source: in-public)
"Get that camera out of here! Can't you see I'm on the toilet!"
--My wife
--My wife
absent basin [deleted]
Posted 19 years ago
"I often think about how painters have the opportunity to show their sketches and that these images are judged by a different set of criteria then what their paintings are. Unfortunately photography doesn’t really have a space for that. We have good pictures and then all that other stuff. I keep trying to get people, (most of all myself) to view those pictures that are not winners as sketches. Often it’s those failures that lead directly to the success. Sometimes this has something to do with a composition you try out, or with working at a certain location at the wrong time, or often these “photographic sketches” are the important transitional picture that pushed you to move five feet to the left. There are definitely moments where a certain “bad” picture was what led me to move myself to the spot where the better picture was made. The latter could not have been made with out the former." - Gus Powell, from 2point8
deeREK
Posted 19 years ago
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
relates somewhat :D
relates somewhat :D
Anyone you tells you to be a 'fly on a wall', is probably a spider.
--Will Sterns
"If your life isn't interesting, neither are your pictures."
--Paul Jasmin
(after a little debate, I have to credit Paul with that 2nd saying)
--Will Sterns
"If your life isn't interesting, neither are your pictures."
--Paul Jasmin
(after a little debate, I have to credit Paul with that 2nd saying)
"Sometimes I get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter"
- Ansel Adams
Imapix likes to include quotes as a narrative to his photographs; I stole this one from there:
"If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it."
-Jay Maisel
- Ansel Adams
Imapix likes to include quotes as a narrative to his photographs; I stole this one from there:
"If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it."
-Jay Maisel
rutger spoelstra
Posted 19 years ago
"I learned a long time ago to trust my instincts. You see? When I’m photographing, I wanna — if I’m at the viewfinder and I know that picture, why take it? I’ll do something to change it, which is often the reason why I may tilt the camera or fool around in various ways. You don’t learn anything from repeating what you know, in affect, so I keep trying to make uncertain."
--Garry Winogrand
(source: 2point8)
--Garry Winogrand
(source: 2point8)
InspectorOyster
Posted 19 years ago
"When I’m photographing, I see life. That’s what I deal with. I don’t have pictures in my head. I frame in terms of what I want to include, and naturally, when I want to snap the shutter. And I don’t worry about how the picture’s gonna look - I let that take care of itself. We know too much about how pictures look and should look, and how do you get around making those pictures again and again. It’s one modus operandi. To frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about how - making a nice picture. That, anybody can do."
Winogrand, from the same link as above.
Winogrand, from the same link as above.
RedAndre
Posted 19 years ago
"They asked me:
"'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled . . .
"I said, 'I don't know, it's not important.' -Henri Cartier-Bresson
I think about this one nearly each time I shoot (what is totally normal since I'm a big amateur haha)
"'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled . . .
"I said, 'I don't know, it's not important.' -Henri Cartier-Bresson
I think about this one nearly each time I shoot (what is totally normal since I'm a big amateur haha)
Marc Todd
Posted 19 years ago
The quote from W. Eugene Smith about not being able to photograph without being in love has a grain (no pun intended) of truth. For most of 2006 I was going through a very difficult time dealing with a woman I was insanely in love with but who was unavailable. I did a lot of shooting that year simply because it was the only thing I could do that had any effect of putting her out of my mind at least for the time I was shooting. I'm not sure if this is what Smith meant, but it rang true for me.
deadpan (formerly far cat)
Posted 19 years ago
"...photographs and memories..." from a song whose singer i can't recall but whose name is on the tip of my tongue. a good song too filling up with memories of a time gone by.
seems to go well with winogrand's "i photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs".
i also recall reading "F8 and be there" when i was young but forgot who said that albeit i knew that it always referred to street photography.
by the way, i wonder what its equivalent would be with dslr? anyone?
seems to go well with winogrand's "i photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs".
i also recall reading "F8 and be there" when i was young but forgot who said that albeit i knew that it always referred to street photography.
by the way, i wonder what its equivalent would be with dslr? anyone?
I was reading an interview with photographer Roger Mayne (who is probably most famous for his pics of 50s London, Notting Hill, etc.) in a little local paper and he quoted Terry Frost:
"If you know before you look, then you cannot see for knowing."
"If you know before you look, then you cannot see for knowing."
toong_bo
Posted 19 years ago
Interesting quote, Paul. It seems to contravene the emphasis on "previsualization" by Adams, et al.
Speaking of whom...
"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."
-Ansel Adams
Speaking of whom...
"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."
-Ansel Adams
One more:
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
-Ansel Adams
Others here:
leison.f2blog.com/read-74.html
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
-Ansel Adams
Others here:
leison.f2blog.com/read-74.html
absent basin [deleted]
Posted 19 years ago
another one from Harbutt for good measure...
"Closed eyes are the state of dreams; only interior visions are possible then. When the eyes are open, an awareness of dreams and the interior life is still possible, but awareness of the external world is possible only with open eyes. And therefore, the fullest experience of life is possible only when one is awake and with open eyes, out on the streets of the world." - Charles Harbutt
"Closed eyes are the state of dreams; only interior visions are possible then. When the eyes are open, an awareness of dreams and the interior life is still possible, but awareness of the external world is possible only with open eyes. And therefore, the fullest experience of life is possible only when one is awake and with open eyes, out on the streets of the world." - Charles Harbutt
OmahaRoss
Posted 19 years ago
I don't know about anyone else's quotes, but if I had to say anything about photography, it's that I remember the pictures I didn't take more than I care about the ones I did.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
kayodic
Posted 19 years ago
"I know who I am. I don't do what I do in order to make somebody like me, or to prove something to someone, or to be the best. I do it for myself, for my own satisfaction. I want to find my limits, to see how far i can go. The maximum, that's what's always interested me - the maximum from me and the maximum from others."
-Josef Koudelka-
-Josef Koudelka-
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
-Ansel Adams
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
-Robert Doisneau , "The Encyclopedia of Photography" (1984)
-Ansel Adams
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
-Robert Doisneau , "The Encyclopedia of Photography" (1984)
mario_rivera
Posted 19 years ago
"Concern yourself not with the question whether the medium, photography, is art. The question is dated and absurd to begin with. You are art or not; whatever you produce is or isn't. And don't think about that either; just do, act."
~Walker Evans
~Walker Evans
JAMIE X has moved
Posted 18 years ago
A slight paraphrase from a lecture I went to see by Phillip Jones Griffiths a few weeks back:
"Do anything; steal, marry into money, just keep shooting!"
"Do anything; steal, marry into money, just keep shooting!"
AndrewWiese
Posted 18 years ago
A good picture requires "a brief collusion between foresight and chance. ...It need not invite reflection so much as create a shock which alerts the viewer to the strangeness of the passage."
Gjon Mili, quoted by John G. Morris in "Get the Picture"
Gjon Mili, quoted by John G. Morris in "Get the Picture"
kalsang82
Posted 18 years ago
really don't know who said it but this is my favourite quote on street photography
"The newspaper lies, the TV lies, the radio lies, the street, they howl with truth"
"The newspaper lies, the TV lies, the radio lies, the street, they howl with truth"
"The amateurs imitate, the professionals steal." (referring to photographers)
I don't know who said it.
And another one goes something like this.. "The best photograph is the one imposing the questions, and not necessarily providing the answers."
Anyone knows where these come from?
I don't know who said it.
And another one goes something like this.. "The best photograph is the one imposing the questions, and not necessarily providing the answers."
Anyone knows where these come from?
krameroneill
Posted 18 years ago
I have heard "Good artists borrow; great artists steal" attributed to Picasso
martinnicholls
Posted 18 years ago
It's from a TS Eliot essay:
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
absent basin [deleted]
Posted 18 years ago
What attracted you to the subjects you ended up shooting?
"I think it is like seeing someone across a crowded bar. Why are you attracted to this type, this subject, this picture? I’d need to spend a decade on a therapist’s couch to understand why. I just am attracted to what I’m attracted to." - Alec Soth
"I think it is like seeing someone across a crowded bar. Why are you attracted to this type, this subject, this picture? I’d need to spend a decade on a therapist’s couch to understand why. I just am attracted to what I’m attracted to." - Alec Soth
g_hanten
Posted 18 years ago
''A photograph is not created by a photographer. What they do is just to open a little window and capture it. The world then writes itself on film.'' --Ferdinando Scianna
"someday my prints will come"......Snow White...........well at least thats what I think she said : ) : )
sorry folks couldnt resist it, the devil on my shoulder made me do it
sorry folks couldnt resist it, the devil on my shoulder made me do it
-- kalsang82 says:
-- really don't know who said it but this is my favourite quote on street photography
-- "The newspaper lies, the TV lies, the radio lies, the street, they howl with truth"
On the other hand:
"photographs have always been convincing lies" - Joel Sternfeld
-- really don't know who said it but this is my favourite quote on street photography
-- "The newspaper lies, the TV lies, the radio lies, the street, they howl with truth"
On the other hand:
"photographs have always been convincing lies" - Joel Sternfeld
This is something I heard said about the theatre, which seems to apply also to photography:
"...if it’s just throwing the content on you [the viewer], it’s very difficult to really find your own space. You need a space to breathe yourself. Then there is a secret and then maybe it can unfold.”
"...if it’s just throwing the content on you [the viewer], it’s very difficult to really find your own space. You need a space to breathe yourself. Then there is a secret and then maybe it can unfold.”
GeoDesigner
Posted 18 years ago
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. -Andre Kertesz
GeoDesigner
Posted 18 years ago
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind. -Manuel Alvarez Bravo
absent basin [deleted]
Posted 18 years ago
"Now that everyone in the developed world seems to own some form of camera, a different space has opened for documentary photographers. It's a space free from specific events, where there are different expectations, where it is first and foremost about ideas. Now we can all take pictures, with varying degrees of consistency, more than ever before it's about what we do with photography." - Mark Power
deadpan (formerly far cat)
Posted 18 years ago
"...digital photography is a 50-50 deal: 50 percent image capture, 50 percent digital darkroom enhancements." - rick sammon
g_hanten
Posted 18 years ago
''To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place....I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." --- Elliott Erwitt
tempura (hit by lightning)
Posted 18 years ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy
absent basin [deleted]
Posted 18 years ago
"As far as I'm concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. it is a way of shouting , of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life." - HCB
Findo
Posted 18 years ago
- that Woody Allen quote was about his first foray into opera directing now that Domingo has convinced him to direct Gianni Schicci... I think..
toong_bo
Posted 18 years ago
From Soth's blog, September 2006.
"I’ve always known that Friedlander does his own printing. But a curator at the Jeu de Paume told me that Friedlander is in his darkroom each morning at the crack of dawn. You can feel it in the pictures. Friedlander could have hung up the tongs a long time ago. But there is an obsessiveness in his picture making that necessitates his own printing. Knowing that Friedlander is rocking the trays at 6am just ads to my experience of the work."
"I’ve always known that Friedlander does his own printing. But a curator at the Jeu de Paume told me that Friedlander is in his darkroom each morning at the crack of dawn. You can feel it in the pictures. Friedlander could have hung up the tongs a long time ago. But there is an obsessiveness in his picture making that necessitates his own printing. Knowing that Friedlander is rocking the trays at 6am just ads to my experience of the work."
cheerful snail [deleted]
Posted 18 years ago
"... it seems to me that Winogrand was at the end of a creative impulse out of control, and on some days a habit without an impulse, one who continued to work, after a fashion, like an overheated engine that will not stop even after the key has been turned off."
John Szarkowski
John Szarkowski