Long live the car-crash hearts.
These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: ‘If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they’d snap a picture of what’s in front of me.’ So I take the picture for them.
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.
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John Loengard, Pictures Under Discussion
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You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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