Lee Friedlander Quotes

#1. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

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#2. At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

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#3. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

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#4. I retired from everything except work.

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#5. Photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

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#6. With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

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#7. If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

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#8. Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

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#9. The West to me is where the landscape is,

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#10. Photography is a generous medium ...

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#11. [Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

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#12. A mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

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#13. I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

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#14. Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

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#15. The world makes up my pictures, not me.

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