Arno Rafael Minkkinen
[Photographer, b. 1945, Helsinki, Finland, lives in Andover, Massachusetts.]
I think photography piles up the limitations more than any other medium I know… To outwit the calamities, I have learned to formulate a partnership with spontaneity.
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Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids.
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What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera!
(Slogan for Minolta, written by Minkkinen when worked as an advertising copywriter) ![](/images/rdquo.gif)
Only the camera knows what happened.
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Be the caretaker of your vision. Make it famous. And above all, remember, that art is risk made visible.
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What the camera sees at the moment of exposure is what I try to envision in my mind. Therein lies the magic of photography for me. It’s why it is always Christmas in my darkroom.
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Contemporary photography has little patience with theories of art that cannot accept our wrinkles, imperfections, and unruly pubic hairs.
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What to do? It’s simple: Stay on the bus. Stay on the fucking bus.
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