Max Dupain quotes
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“Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding of men and women and the life they live and create.”
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“For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.”
-- Max DupainSource : Max Dupain, Jill White, Matthew Cawood (2000). “Dupain's beaches”
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“I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field.”
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“Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses.”
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“Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.”
-- Max Dupain
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2005.
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