Tod Papageorge Quotes

• If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

  Tod Papageorge

  Artist, Ideas, Vision

  Interview with Alec Soth, alecsothblog.wordpress.com. July 11, 2007.

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• My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.

  Tod Papageorge

  Mad, Imagination, World

  Interview with Alec Soth, alecsothblog.wordpress.com. July 11, 2007.

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• By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

  Tod Papageorge

  Remembrance, Fiction, Surprise

  "Winogrand's Theater Of Quick Takes" by Tod Papageorge, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 1977.

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• [The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

  Tod Papageorge

  Photograph, Passing, Dross

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• It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

  Tod Papageorge

  Snapshots, Photographer, Charm

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• I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.

  Tod Papageorge

  Photography, Believe, Fiction

  Interview with Alec Soth, alecsothblog.wordpress.com. July 12, 2007.

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• I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

  Tod Papageorge

  Photography, Believe, Writing

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• Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

  Tod Papageorge

  Dog, Dumb, Faithful

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