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Ocupation: Photographer

Life: b. 1941

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Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

Topics: Order, Firsts, Things Happen, Eliminating

quote i create situations that do not exist i seek the truth from fiction sarah moon Quotes

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

Topics: Childhood, Creative

Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

Topics: Sometimes, Enough

How can one live without hope and longing?

Topics: Longing, Without Hope

For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

Topics: Firsts

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

Topics: Fiction, Situation

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

Topics: Photography, Eye, Grace, Surprise Me, Foreseen

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

Topics: Thinking, Certain, Interest

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

Topics: Photography, Giving, Stories

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

Topics: Information, Given, Aim, Markers

I never photograph reality.

Topics: Reality, Photograph

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Topics: Photography, Believe, Black And White, Deviance

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