It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you might discover something in a photograph that is the key. The very doorway to your own interest.
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I j… - Joel Meyerowitz
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I j…
- Joel Meyerowitz
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!' - Joel Meyerowitz
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures. - Joel Meyerowitz
Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.
Photography is about being exquisitely present. - Joel Meyerowitz
Photography is about being exquisitely present.
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape … - Joel Meyerowitz
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape …
When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the s… - Joel Meyerowitz
When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the s…
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I d… - Joel Meyerowitz
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I d…
I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildin… - Joel Meyerowitz
I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildin…
You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that look… - Joel Meyerowitz
You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that look…
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