Quotes by Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz

‘Tough’ meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn’t be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.

Beautiful

Tough

Way

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy … The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

Cameras

Energy

Meditation

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say ‘Wow!’

Astonishment

Photographer

Wow

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of ‘leading’ children by running after them as quickly as possible.

Children

Running

Teacher

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.

Art

Believe

Photography

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer possibilities to be more than they are a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer’s experience.

Beautiful

Important

Intuition

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

Acting

Photographer

Recognition

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic element to photographing, in this case not war, but the collapse. It was just destruction.

Black And White

Photography

War

I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildings and trees and air – but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Air

Discovery

Thinking

I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great medium for that. It happens in an instant, but it gives you hours or days of time to reflect on things. It’s a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on. It’s pure philosophy. And poetry.

Beautiful

Philosophy

Photography

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Acting

Air

Art

Astonishment

Beautiful

Believe

Black And White

Cameras

Children

Connections

Dimensions

Discovery

Doorways

Energy

Eye

Feelings

Forever

Giving

Glimpse

Going Away

Hands

Important

Intuition

Keys

Looks

Meditation

Moral

Moving

Needs

Past

Philosophical

Philosophy

Photographer

Photography

Portraits

Quality

Real

Recognition

Records

Risk

Running

Shadow

Statements

Teacher

Thinking

Tough

Trying

War

Way

Wow

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Quotes by Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy … The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say ‘Wow!’

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of ‘leading’ children by running after them as quickly as possible.

I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there is a tragic element to photographing, in this case not war, but the collapse. It was just destruction.

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