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 than as a personal vision of the world.
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…
- 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
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
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.
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…
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing. - Tod Papageorge
I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.
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…
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…
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