The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand… - Keith Carter
I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand…
- Keith Carter
Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life. - Keith Carter
Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.
I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our… - Keith Carter
I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our…
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". - Keith Carter
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with. - Keith Carter
How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.
I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometime… - Keith Carter
I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometime…
At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at th… - Keith Carter
At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at th…
Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But someti… - Keith Carter
Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But someti…
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really j… - Keith Carter
In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really j…
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