La ceai, la fel cu ceilalţi, şedea. C-apucă altfel ceaşca, la-nceput, – puţin altfel ca alţii – mi-a părut. Şi brusc zâmbi. Aproape că durea. Când în sfârşit ei s-au sculat vorbind şi la-ntâmplare şi încet treceau prin multe încăperi (vorbeau, râdeau), eu am văzut-o. Celorlalţi urmând, Închisă-n ea ca cea ce va să-nceapă să…
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. – Diane Arbus
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” – Ansel Adams
I do not believe a photographer should go with a preconceived idea of what he is going to get. He should be moved by his subject. If he is not, he will become blind to the most beautiful aspects of nature. – Clarence Hudson White
Very often (too often, to my taste) I have been photographed and knew it. Now, once I feel myself observed by the lens, everything changes: I constitute myself in the process of “posing,” I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image. This transformation is an active one: I…
“A te trezi de dimineaţă înseamnă a fi redat propriei tale vieţi. A te trezi – şi bănuiesc că avem mereu de ales între a o face sau a nu o face – înseamnă a fi redat din nou lumii şi dintre toate lumile posibile tocmai acestei lumi, acestui pământ ce musteşte de trupurile celor…
“Happiness always contains a mixture of something like unhappiness. When I photograph unhappiness I only capture unhappiness, but when I photograph happiness, life, death, and everything else comes through. Unhappiness seems grave and heavy; happiness is light, but happiness has its own heaviness, a looming sense of death.” – Nobuyoshi Araki
“What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.” – Berenice Abbott
The first thing I found was this. What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially. In the Photograph, the event is never transcended for the sake of something else: the Photograph always leads the corpus I need back to the body I see;…
