Nicholas Nixon Quotes
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People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.
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The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.
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People will do terrific things in it, and it’s maybe better for color now. But I’m not interested in the way this work looks. So much is changed—veracity is lost. The quality of witness is compromised.
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Physically, looking through a giant ground glass and seeing how the world looks is amazing. When composing a shot, I see a combination of the real facts of my subject and the camera's transformation of their image at the same time.
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I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.