Top 4 Quotes by Jerome Liebling

These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all the warts can be removed. But returning to the source of a thing - the real source

These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all the warts can be removed. But returning to the source of a thing - the real source - means the photographer has to watch, dig, listen for voices, sniff the smells, and have many doubts. My life in photography has been lived as a skeptic.

Jerome Liebling

Photography, Real, Mean

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.

Jerome Liebling

Photography, People, Everyday

Jerome Liebling, Carroll T. Hartwell, Ken Burns, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Photographers' Gallery (1995). “The people, yes”

For me photography had an immediacy... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.

Jerome Liebling

Photography, Issues, People

My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.

Jerome Liebling

Order, Events, Truthful

Jerome Liebling, Alan Trachtenberg (1997). “Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969”, p.110, Minnesota Historical Society Press