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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
Photographer
Photojournalist
War Photographer
Wichita
Kansas
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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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The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.
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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 would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
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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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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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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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Hardening of the categories causes art disease.
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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
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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 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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I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.
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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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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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An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.
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