{"id":16734,"date":"2016-04-07T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=16734"},"modified":"2016-04-07T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:55:57","slug":"9-great-quotes-by-photographer-kenro-izu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/16734\/9-great-quotes-by-photographer-kenro-izu\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Great Quotes By Photographer Kenro Izu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Kenro Izu.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeeling is a very important aspect because my subject is sacred sites. There is a very strong spiritual feeling regardless of what the religion was. The important thing is the spirituality of these monuments. It\u2019s not just a photograph of a building. The building has to be there to photograph but the atmosphere is what I\u2019m really interested in. The building is a representation of that spiritual side. Without architecture there is nothing I can photograph. But what I\u2019m photographing is atmosphere, air actually surrounding that monument.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI try to teach students to try to see with your eyes not through the camera because through the camera is always something different.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t see it you don\u2019t get it. If you see you\u2019ll get it.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m fresh things always surprise me somehow. But if I see something everyday for one month then it doesn\u2019t surprise me anymore.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI took so many pictures and I never gave back. I thought in taking we have to give something.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe photographers are privileged to have a communication tool like the camera. It\u2019s great communication.\u00a0 <\/span>I have to use that privilege for good not just for my career or artistic or personal business.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople always ask me why I am photographing stone monuments. It\u2019s the closest thing to something that lasts an eternity. But look here there is a border line between the sand and the stone. It\u2019s so vague. When I saw this I thought, “Stone is not forever.” Everything eventually goes back to the soil or water.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn general what I learned was in the west something eroded, rotten, disintegrated is not something beautiful. Fresh is better than dying. Sometimes I got very weird comments when I photographed a dead or dying flower. They said, “Why don\u2019t you take it when it\u2019s really beautiful?” That\u2019s a different point of view. One might think these roses are ugly, that two days before they were much prettier. I see both ways. When they were in full bloom, peak, they were beautiful, of course. But I see this as equally beautiful. In a way it is more beautiful to me. I sometimes wonder if that is one difference between eastern and western.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI try to search my own sense of beauty. And where I can see it, I use it as a study, thinking about what is life and what is death. It\u2019s a big subject and I still can\u2019t figure out what it\u2019s about. But by observing I can sometimes feel … but I can\u2019t really say.\u201d – Kenro Izu<\/span><\/p>\n

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