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This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Alec Soth's Popular Quotes

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

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Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

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I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

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It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.

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The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpret…

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I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a…

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The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making …

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If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?

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This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a bett…

- Alec Soth