Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.