Douglas McCulloh Quotes

#1. Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

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#2. If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

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#3. Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

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#4. Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

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#5. Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.

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#6. To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

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#7. A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

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#8. Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

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