The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
Minor WhiteIf I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.
Minor WhiteTo engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.
Minor WhitePhotographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.
Minor WhiteCamera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.
Minor WhiteWhile we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.
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