A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.
Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.
Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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