I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things … - Abelardo Morell

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It took a brave editor in the U. S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

Abelardo Morell

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

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A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

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It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

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The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.

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At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.

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There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

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