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Ocupation: Photographer

Life: b. August 1, 1940

Birthday: August 1

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By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

Topics: Remembrance, Fiction, Surprise

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If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

Topics: Artist, Ideas, Vision, Personal Vision

My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.

Topics: Mad, Imagination, World

I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.

Topics: Photography, Believe, Fiction

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

Topics: Snapshots, Photographer, Charm, Wild Strawberries

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

Topics: Dog, Dumb, Faithful, Quarry

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

Topics: Photograph, Passing, Dross

I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

Topics: Photography, Believe, Writing

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