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John Divola Quotes:

John Divola quotes

Life: b. 1949

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To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

source: - Virginia Heckert, Judy Fiskin, John Divola (2011). “Some Aesthetic Decisions: The Photographs of Judy Fiskin”, p.16, Getty Publications

Topics: Numbers, Choices, Redemption

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The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

Topics: Snakes, Skins, Photograph

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

Topics: Sublime, Looks, Metaphor

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

Topics: Sublime, Photograph, Notion

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

Topics: Photography, Teaching, Thinking

I really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm using a flash because I don't know what it's going to do. I just see vague potentiality. It's really working with a set of attributes that will hopefully interact in an interesting way.

Topics: Interesting, Worry, Too Much, Interesting Ways

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