Everybody presumably knows of Joel Meyerowitz, for his street photographs and for his 9/11 site photographs. An observation of his from Photo-wisdom : Master Photographers on Their Art …
“Photography … stills time in such a way that if you stand in front of it and immerse yourself in the experience it describes, you can lose yourself in there. I look for that kind of opportunity, where the photographer has been generous enough in how they have been entranced in their moment that I have an opportunity to stand in their shoes.”
and later …
“A lot of people put their intellectual concerns first with photography, but I think it is a discipline that is at first a visceral one … Astonish me! This is what I want from photography. It can be with the most ordinary thing and yet change my consciousness.”
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