List of Aaron Siskind Quotes

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Aaron Siskind
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However, i must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. what i am conscious of and what i feel is the picture i am making, the relation of that picture to others i have made and, more generally, its relation to others i have experienced.
Photography Stress Photographer
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. my first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. as soon as i became familiar with the camera, i was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. it was like a discovery for me.
Photography Taken Discovery
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? it has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. it may be they are. the degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.
Photography Memories Character
Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. for me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
Successful World Photographer
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. the so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.
Desire Alive World
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of christ, freud, and marx.
Photography Men Essentials
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. there is first the examination of the idea of the project. then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... and finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
Photography Taken Ideas
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.
Photography Simple Together
The only nature i'm interested in is my own nature.
Photography Photographer My Own
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. and that's your picture.
Moving Eye Relax
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. at its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. and its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Photography Art Mean
When i make a photograph i want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
Photography Self Order
  • Born: December 4, 1903
  • Died: February 8, 1991
  • Occupation: Photographer
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