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We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

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Lee Friedlander

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.

Photography, Ideas, Important, Demanding, Subject
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I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

Art, Dream, Fascinated, Having, Materials, Photography

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

Dog, Fence, Pebbles, Photography, Standing, Uncles

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

Generous, Looking, Material, Materials, Staring, Staring At You

I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. 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. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.

Come, Puzzles, Reflecting, Silly, Simple, Wall

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.

Feelings, Generous, Photographer, Photography, See, Shooting
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