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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
W. Eugene Smith
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W. Eugene Smith
Age: 59 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 30
Died: 1978
Died: October 15
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
War Photographer
Wichita
Kansas
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The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.
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...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.
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An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.
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I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.
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I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.
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What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
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Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.
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Available light is any damn light that is available!
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Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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My pictures are complex and so am I.
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I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?
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You can't photograph if you're not in love.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.
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My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.
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If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
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The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
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