Arthur Tress Quotes

• Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation.

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  Photography, Mean, Imagination

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• Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.

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  Photography, Confusing, Defining

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• I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.

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  Believe, Records, Majority

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• My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.

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  Meaningful, Organization, Desire

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• La imagen fotográfica tiene grandes posibilidades. La fotografía mágica intenta ir más allá del contexto inmediato de la experiencia registrada y adentrarse en el reino de lo indefinible. El fotógrafo como mago es muy consciente de la multiplicidad de asociaciones sumergidas en la apariencia del mundo objetivo.

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  World, Association, Photographer

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• The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.

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  Information, Documentaries, Window

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• The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?

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  Dream, Loneliness, Gay

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• Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.

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  Photography, Fall, Mean

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