Adam Fuss
[Photographer, b. 1961, London, lives in New York.]
An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That's why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual. It's as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic.
Olivo Barbieri
[Photographer, b. 1954, Carpi, Italy, lives in Milan.]
I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it’s possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.
Emmet Gowin
[Photographer, b. 1941, Danville, Virginia, lives in Princeton, New Jersey.]
All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.
Yukio Mishima
[Writer, b. 1925, Tokyo, d. 1970, Tokyo.]
If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first—having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds—supply other means to abstraction instead.
David Maisel
[Photographer, b. 1961, New York, lives in San Francisco.]
It occurred to me that I could be taking pictures of my studio floor. It does look like something I would shoot. But to me it would be meaningless. There is a way that I’m trying to move back and forth between the content and the process of abstraction, where the image alone can take you in and you can respond to it as metaphor.
Ralph Gibson
[Photographer, b. 1939, Los Angeles, California, lives in New York.]
I’m interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I’m not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.
Ed Ruscha
[Artist, b. 1937, Omaha, Nebraska, lives in Los Angeles.]
Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.
James Joyce
[Writer, b. 1882, Rathgar, Ireland, d. 1941, Zurich, Switzerland.]
...I could pose for a picture naked to some rich fellow in Holles street when he lost the job in Helys and I was selling the clothes and strumming in the coffee palace would I be like that bath of the nymph with my hair down yes only shes younger or Im a little like that dirty bitch in that Spanish photo he has nymphs used they go about like that I asked him about her and that word met something with hoses in it...
