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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

~Aaron Siskind

Topics: After Captured Caught Everything Feeling Film Forever Forgotten Little Little Things Long Loving Photography Remembers Things Touching Way You

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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

~Aaron Siskind

Topics: Advance Any Art Between Difference Illustration Know Revealed Say Want You

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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

~Aaron Siskind

Topics: Almost Between Inevitably Inside Me Outside Outside World Picture Successful Tensions Them Without World

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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

~Aaron Siskind

Topics: Been Beliefs Believe Conditioned Expect Learn Learned Look Must Our Photographers Relax See World

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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

~Aaron Siskind

Topics: Best Christ Documentary Enough Essential Freud He Man Marx May Most Nature Object Our Per Photography Satisfy Today Worship Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: Unknown

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