Robert Polidori quotes
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“I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.”
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“Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.”
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“My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.”
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“I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.”
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“I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.”
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“I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.”
-- Robert Polidori
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“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
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Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
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“We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.”
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