quotes

“Exhibiting my photographs over the years, I have watched people’s reactions to images that I often thought had meaning only to me because I had been witness to the moment in real time when the picture was taken. But I learned that everyone brings a personal past to their sight, projecting themselves into an image in order to receive something back he or she can relate to personally. This has confirmed for me the universality of life’s experiences, and the possibility that a moment in ‘real time’ is often just a comprehensible moment in eternity.”

 ~ Deborah DeWit Marchant in Traveling Light

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"I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day. I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack the dog peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography."

~ Lee Friedlander

from Blake Andrews post The millionth pebble

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"At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly though, in return we are given something perfect - a sense of inclusion."

~ Robert Adams