Allan Sekula Quotes
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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I never read about photography.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
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After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
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In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
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I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
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I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.
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I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.
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I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
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Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
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I would love to study photography.
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There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.
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I just love the world of photography.
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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt -
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
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I am definitely the queen. I definitely see myself as the queen.
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My brain is just always going and going and going.
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The current operating system culture is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, dysfunctional, malfunctional behaviour. Time to call a tech! And who are the techs? The shamans are the techs.
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While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.
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There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
