Jack Welpott quotes
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“Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world.”
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“In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.”
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“Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.”
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“Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.”
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“When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.”
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“I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.”
-- Jack Welpott
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”
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