I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
All things are photographable.
Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
There is no special way a photograph should look.
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good
For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.
You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
A photograph can look any way.
