I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross). - Tod Papageorge
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
- Tod Papageorge
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. - Tod Papageorge
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.
I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I d… - Tod Papageorge
I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I d…
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing. - Tod Papageorge
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something… - Tod Papageorge
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something…
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same s… - Tod Papageorge
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same s…
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experien… - Tod Papageorge
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experien…
It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and p… - Tod Papageorge
It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and p…
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