Most of the problems inherent in American photography stem from exactly the same source that has provided so many assets – the acceptance of photography as fine art.
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Photography in America is wide open in its possibilities, free in its potentials, heroic in its achievements and generous in its recognition and rewards to photographers.
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The history of photography needs an inside-out approach rather than an outside-in view, To deduce teh spirit of the past, we must be willing to compile the hard facts.
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Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices.
- Bill Jay
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True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
- Bill Jay
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Exhibiting your own art-photographs is a form of psychic incest.
- Bill Jay
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I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.
- Bill Jay
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I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
- Bill Jay
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Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains...
- Bill Jay
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..photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.
- Bill Jay
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If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
- Bill Jay
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Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.
- Bill Jay
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