If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Photograph each day so we can live forever
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I've been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.
Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.
I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.
Taking photos is a form of collecting.
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
I shoot just one moment at a time... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception.
A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.
If I'm ever having a good time, I'll write about it so I'll remember it.
Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.
My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
Bad weather makes for good photography.
