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What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
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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War Photographer
Wichita
Kansas
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My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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My pictures are complex and so am I.
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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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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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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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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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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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An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.
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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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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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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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... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
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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 try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.
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With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
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I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?
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Available light is any damn light that is available!
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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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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
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