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
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.
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…
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".
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…
The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory. - Keith Carter
The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.
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 want to be made better personally. That is the gig. - Keith Carter
I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in li… - Keith Carter
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in li…
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