[b.1929] American documentary photographer
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Photography is like life... What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling.... An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they know what it means.
Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the seeking of truth in relation to yourself.
Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.
Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the young must make love, and the photographer must, I suppose, be ready to photograph it all.
..a good photograph must have the element of good design: Everything within the photograph has to be essential. It's never like a painting where you can have it perfect. It shouldn't be absolutely perfect. That would kill it.
Ultimately photography is about who you are. It’s the seeking of truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate.
Everything within the photograph has to be essential...it shouldn't be absolutely perfect. That would kill it.
