As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera. - Clarence John Laughlin

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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Clarence John Laughlin

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

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Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

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It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.

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The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition. . . my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

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I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).

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Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.

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