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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.
W. Eugene Smith
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W. Eugene Smith
Age: 59 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 30
Died: 1978
Died: October 15
Journalist
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Kansas
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Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.
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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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Available light is any damn light that is available!
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My pictures are complex and so am I.
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In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.
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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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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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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
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Hardening of the categories causes art disease.
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I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
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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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The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.
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I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.
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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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I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.
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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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What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.
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