>I would add this one, perhaps my favorite quote on photography, >from Mexican photographer Marcey Jacobson:
>
>"I was making photographs of the world long before I was a >photographer."
I like that a lot, Jeff.
--- Luis
At 09:52 AM 1/12/2003 +0000, luis wrote:
>
> Explaining terminology is one thing, but the recurring intellectual
> macho game is so boring. Small wonder newbies do not want to learn it.
> They see what's happened to those who have. Scary...
>
> Here is my simple (and wrong) answer to all this, another kind of
> terminology......
>
>
> " It is not the camera that is important but what is inside you."
>
> --- Mario Giacomelli
>
> "We don't take pictures with our cameras, we take them with our
> hearts and minds."
>
> --- Arnold Newman
>
> " I tell stories " --- Duane Michals
>
> " Photography has....educated me. It has enabled me to look at so many
> people and at so many different cultures."
> --- Mary Ellen Mark
>
> "Photography is a wonderful thing, because you look at others living"
> --- Erich Hartmann
>
> "Only a few of my photographs capture being, the essence of a
> thing." --- Ellen Auerbach
>
> "Photography brings me closer to people. That's what is wonderful"
> --- Sabine Weiss
>
> " I am fascinated by people. It is the human isde of things that draws
> me" -- Inge Morath
>
> " I am trying to understand this world by taking pictures"
> --- Ted Croner
>
> " The important thing is what goes on within us. And what we make of
> it. " --- Ilse Bing
>
>
> --- Luis
>
>
>
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Jeff Spirer
Photos: http://www.spirer.com
