Lee Friedlander Quotes

• You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

  Lee Friedlander

  Staring, Staring At You, Materials

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• I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

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  Photography, Dream, Art

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• I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.

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  Wall, Silly, Simple

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• Sólo quería al tío Vernon de pie junto a su propio coche (un Hudson) en un día despejado, y lo conseguí a él y al coche. También conseguí un poco de la colada de la tía Mary y a Beau Jack, el perro, orinando en la valla, y una hilera de begonias tuberosas en el porche y 78 árboles y un millón de guijarros en el camino de entrada y más. La fotografía es un medio generoso.

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  Photography, Dog, Uncles

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• The world makes up my pictures, not me.

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  Photography, World

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• It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.

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  Photography, Feelings, Shooting

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• Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

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  Photography, Cameras, Doe

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• If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Answers, Asks

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• The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Mirrors, Cameras

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Book, Dust

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• I retired from everything except work.

  Lee Friedlander

  Retirado

  "Lee Friedlander: American Icon" by Elisabeth Biondi, www.newyorker.com. September 02, 2010.

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• ... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Tree, Information

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• ... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

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  Photography, Attention, Chance

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• At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

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  Ideas, Feelings, Add

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• Photography is a generous medium.

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  Photography, Mediums, Generous

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• Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

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  Photography, Interesting, Matter

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• I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Self, Looks

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

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  Photography, Ideas, Important

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• With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

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  Photography, Believe, Cameras

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• When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together?

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  Photography, Games, Two

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• The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.

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  Photography, Light, Ideas

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• [Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

  Lee Friedlander

  Men, Bulls, World

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• The West to me is where the landscape is.

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  Landscape, West

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