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It fascinates me that there is...

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.

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The camera is not merely a ref...

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

Lee Friedlander 22 quotes

At first, my presence in my ph...

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

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I always wanted to be a photog...

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

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The West to me is where the la...

The West to me is where the landscape is,

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I only wanted Uncle Vernon sta...

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary's laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It's a generous medium, photography.

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The world makes up my pictures...

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

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... photographs are so loaded ...

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

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The idea that the snapshot wou...

The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.

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I suspect it is for one's self...

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

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Sometimes just the facts of th...

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

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When you take a picture you ha...

When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together?

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If one really knew what one wa...

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

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Anything that looks like an id...

Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

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Photographs also show the way ...

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

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... a mysterious intersection ...

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

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With a camera like that you do...

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

Lee Friedlander 22 quotes

I suspect it is for one's self...

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds

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