I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930’s and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight , feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.
So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, ’41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.
Some photographers take reality… , impose the domination of their own thought , spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly , a photograph to them is an instrument of love , revelation.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score , the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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