The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
To photograph is to confer importance.
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
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