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A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength.

Richard Kalvar's Popular Quotes

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

- Richard Kalvar

It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.

- Richard Kalvar

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from ev…

- Richard Kalvar

I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with the am…

- Richard Kalvar