Douglas McCulloh quotes
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“Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.”
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“A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.”
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“Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.”
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“Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.”
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“Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.”
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“Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.”
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“To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.”
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“If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.”
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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“Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.”
Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”
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“A photograph is a biography of a moment.”
Source : "Photographs tell story of decades-long romance". Interview with Dean Reynolds, www.cbsnews.com. February 13, 2014.
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