Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.
If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one. - Shomei Tomatsu
If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.
- Shomei Tomatsu
A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into … - Shomei Tomatsu
A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into …
Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never change… - Shomei Tomatsu
Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never change…
In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts. - Shomei Tomatsu
In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.
In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fl… - Shomei Tomatsu
In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fl…
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience. - Shomei Tomatsu
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you. - Shomei Tomatsu
Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.
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