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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.
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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Photojournalist
War Photographer
Wichita
Kansas
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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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I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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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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An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.
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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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Available light is any damn light that is available!
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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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Hardening of the categories causes art disease.
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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 first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.
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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
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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 think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.
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You can't photograph if you're not in love.
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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 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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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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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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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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