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 side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever.
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
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…
Photography is about being exquisitely present. - Joel Meyerowitz
Photography is about being exquisitely present.
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…
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 …
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!'
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…
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.
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