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The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: Always Back Interpretation Look Looks Me Nature Photography Resisted See Temptation I See

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I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

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Topics: Always Considered Everything Myself Photography Poet Whether

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When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with a secret language. It gave me a sense of identity. I suddenly discovered I wasn't alone.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: Alone Discovered Felt Gave High High School Identity Language Me Poetry School Secret Senior Sense Sixteen Started Suddenly Term Touch Writing

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All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my life with art but a divine accident.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: Accident Art Divine Done Far Life Much My Life Pictures Poems Thus

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I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: Always Could Guess History Personal Photography Poetry Relationship Returning Say Seem You

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I always had the feeling, even when I started, that my photography was meant to be archival in nature. Sort of like wine, I guess - they get better with age.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: Age Always Better Even Feeling Get Guess Had Like Meant Meant To Be Nature Photography Sort Started Wine

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What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

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Topics: About Art Does Me Mean Meaning Meaning Of Never Obviously Really Think

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Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: About Curiosity Feel Picture Poem Thinking Whether Without Working I Feel

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If I'm astonished by what I've done, then I know I've been somewhere in the making of it but not during the making of it. Only after the fact. If I'm not astonished, then I've failed in the making of it.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: After Astonished Been Done Fact Failed Know Making Only Somewhere Then

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As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we're in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that's the fun of it.

~Gerard Malanga

Topics: Capacity Each Finds Full Fun General Geographic Intensity Level Midst Might National National Geographic Our Own Photographer Pictures Really Shoot Someone Taking Us View Works World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 20th, 1943

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