Quotes by John Szarkowski

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A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

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Interesting

Photography

A photographer’s best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

Best Work

Done

Photographer

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Photograph

Photographer

Wells

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

Different

Lying

Reality

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

Philosophical

Photography

Thinking

It isn’t what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

It Is What It Is

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

Discovery

Lying

Photography

Luck is the attentive photographer’s best teacher.

Luck

Photography

Teacher

Most of Tina Modotti’s work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

Mexico

Photography

Years

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late ‘twenties’ to the early ‘fifties’ what might have been the golden age of this speciality – photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

Illumination

Media

Photography

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Different

Discovery

Done

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Goal

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Impeccable

Impossible

Interesting

It Is What It Is

Ivory

Lines

Luck

Lying

May

Media

Mexico

Might

Music

Numbers

Persuasive

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Photograph

Photographer

Photography

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Reality

Shapes

Simple

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Sometimes

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Quotes by John Szarkowski

John Szarkowski

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

A photographer’s best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

It isn’t what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

Luck is the attentive photographer’s best teacher.

Most of Tina Modotti’s work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

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