Art Wolfe Quotes
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.
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Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.
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People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.
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The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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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.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.
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Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
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The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
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I don't care what they do. I've said what I had to say about it. I'm done with it.
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Don't make Christ ride shotgun.
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Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs
