Occupation: Photographer Birth: 1931 Death: 2006
Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what ….
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph..
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a v….
I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do a….
There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph..
I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image..
I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new conf….
An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using s….
The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something..
I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible..