That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of phot… - Walker Evans
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of phot…
- Walker Evans
In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality. - Walker Evans
In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. - Walker Evans
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. - Walker Evans
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. - Walker Evans
The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style. - Walker Evans
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, li… - Walker Evans
Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, li…
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. - Walker Evans
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is. - Walker Evans
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.
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