{"id":13008,"date":"2014-03-13T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=13008"},"modified":"2014-03-13T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T12:50:18","slug":"18-quotes-by-photographer-joel-meyerowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/13008\/18-quotes-by-photographer-joel-meyerowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Quotes By Photographer Joel Meyerowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nHere’s a collection of my favorite quotes by Joel Meyerowitz<\/a>.
\n\u201cWe think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cI 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 buildings and trees and air – but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cWhat I think is so extraordinary about the photograph is that we have a piece of paper with this image adhered to it, etched on it, which interposes itself into the plane of time that we are actually in at that moment. Even if it comes from as far back as 150 years ago, or as recently as yesterday, or a minute before as a Polaroid color photograph, suddenly you bring it into your experience. You look at it, and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201c[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy \u2026 The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cI find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer possibilities to be more than they are … a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer\u2019s experience.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cMaking any statement of your feelings is risky. It’s just like making pictures.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n“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
\n\u201cWe all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, \u201cOh, look at that.\u201d Maybe it\u2019s nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you\u2019ll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cI have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cPhotography 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 just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there’s everything, next moment it’s gone. Photography is very philosophical.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cThey [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you’ve been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless. And it’s the quality of that bite that teaches you how connected you were to that thing, and where you stood in relation to it, then and now.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cYou know, he (Winogrand) set a tempo on the street so strong that it was impossible not to follow it. It was like jazz. You just had to get in the same groove… You know, if you hesitate, forget it. You don’t have to learn to unleash that. It was like having a hair trigger. Sometimes walking down the street, wanting to make a picture, I would be so anticipatory, so anxious, that I would just have to fire the camera, to let fly a picture, in order to release the energy, so that I could recock it. That’s what you got from Garry. It came off him in waves – to be keyed up, eager, excited for pictures in that way.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cIt comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren\u2019t good, you might discover something in a photograph that is the key. The very doorway to your own interest.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201c\u2019Tough’ meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn\u2019t be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cI had to learn to identify what it was exactly I was responding to, and if my response was any good. The only way to do that is to take pictures, print them, look hard at them and discuss them with other people.” – Joel Meyerowitz
\n”It’s appetite. You have to be hungry for these things to see it.” – Joel Meyerowitz<\/span>
\n\u201cI believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography\u2014that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n\u201cWhat is the art experience about? Really, I’m not interested in making “Art” at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word “Art”, it’s almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be.\u201d – Joel Meyerowitz
\n“It’s (photography) me asking myself: ‘How interesting is this medium? And how interesting can I make it for me? And, by the way, who the fuck am I?'”
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