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A murderer shared Taisuke Nakano’s exact name. He discovered this while researching a real murder from 2000. Photography Book Spotlight
“I have never been interested in photographs based solely on aesthetics, divorced from reality. I also doubt very much whether this is possible.”
“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing ‘Chopsticks’ on a concert grand piano.”
“Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.”
“The artist’s task is to find the right point of view, the right angle, to create something that didn’t exist before.”
“My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation.”
"I'm happiest when I'm away from my studio, away from my house, and out with my camera.”
“Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.”
"The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other."
"We don't take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds."
"The camera is just a tool; the real magic happens when the photographer can find the humanity in their subjects."
"I'm not interested in images that show something. I'm interested in images that feel something."
"My work is about an exploration of the world, trying to make some sense of the chaos of life."
In my interview with Crewdson, we went through how Madeline’s Beauty Salon was made. Story Behind The Photograph