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Photography Is Essentially An Act Of Recognition By Street Photographers, Not An Act Of Invention. Photographers Might Respond To An Old Man’s Face, Or An Arbus Freak, Or The Way Light Hits A Building—and Then They Move On. Whereas In All The Other Art Forms, Take William Blake, Everything That Came To That Paper Never Existed Before. It’s The Idea Of Alchemy, Of Making Something From Nothing.

Photography Deals Exquisitely With Appearances, But Nothing Is What It Appears To Be.

Photographers Tend Not To Photograph What They Can’t See, Which Is The Very Reason One Should Try To Attempt It. Otherwise We’re Going To Go On Forever Just Photographing More Faces And More Rooms And More Places. Photography Has To Transcend Description. It Has To Go Beyond Description To Bring Insight Into The Subject, Or Reveal The Subject, Not As It Looks, But How Does It Feel?

I Write In Order To Express What The Photo Itself Cannot Say. A Photograph Of My Father Doesn't Tell Me What I Thought Of Him, Which For Me Is Much More Important Than What The Man Looked Like.

I Think That The Photographer Must Completely Control His Picture And Bring To It All His Personality, And In This Area Most Photographs Never Transcend Being Just Snapshots. When A Great Photographer Does Infuse The Snapshot With His Personality And Vision, It Can Be Transformed Into Something Truly Moving And Beautiful.