One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.
Diane Arbus.
“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
“One thing that struck me early is that you dont put into a photograph whats going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.”
“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”
“What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.”
“Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”
“Mediante la fotografa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicin fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusin de mi pasado.”
“Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ”
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, a...”