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A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.
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Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.
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The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
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Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.
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The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
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John Szarkowski
Born:
December 18, 1925
Died:
July 7, 2007
(aged 81)
Bio:
John Szarkowski was a photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Known for:
The Photographer's Eye (1966)
Ansel Adams at 100 (2001)
The Idea of Louis Sullivan (1956)
Winogrand: Figments from the Real World (1988)
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