I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.
[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop. - Lee Friedlander
[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.
- Lee Friedlander
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason a… - Lee Friedlander
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason a…
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something … - Lee Friedlander
I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something …
The world makes up my pictures, not me. - Lee Friedlander
The world makes up my pictures, not me.
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a … - Lee Friedlander
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a …
I retired from everything except work. - Lee Friedlander
I retired from everything except work.
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. - Lee Friedlander
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.
Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own… - Lee Friedlander
Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own…
Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting. - Lee Friedlander
Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.
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