Mario Giacomelli quotes
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“Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.”
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“Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.”
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“Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.”
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“To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments are the greatest joys in my life, as if I were undressing the most beautiful woman in the world - that is, if she will allow herself be undressed. If the photo is a success, it means that she was willing. If not, it has been a lovely dream.”
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“I don't know about other people's cameras. Mine is a thing I had cobbled up, it holds together with tape and is always losing parts. All I need to set is the distance and that other thing - what do you call that other thing?”
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“There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyone - only against time.”
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“[My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them.”
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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“You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”
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“We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.”
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“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”
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