Taryn Simon
[Photographer, b. 1975, New York, lives in New York.]
...photography’s history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.
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.
Nan Goldin
[Photographer, b. 1953, Washington, D.C., lives in New York and Paris.]
I never learned control over my machines. I made every mistake in the book. But the technical mistakes allowed for magic…. Random psychological subtexts that I never would have thought to intentionally create.
Larry Sultan
[Photographer, b. 1946, Brooklyn, New York, d. 2009, Greenbrae, California.]
I always thought of a great photograph as if some creature walked into my room; it’s like, how did you get here? What are you made of? And no matter how many pictures I make, I have never depleted that quality of mystery.
Eugène Delacroix
[Artist, b. 1798, Charenton-St.Maurice, France, d. 1863, Paris.]
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer “takes a picture”… the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
Boris Mikhailov
[Photographer, b. 1938, Kharkov, Ukraine, lives in Kharkov and Berlin.]
You photograph one object, then another, you place them between one another and this unintentional connection turns into a story about life in its entirety. And all this is born from chance, and this chance is photography.
Dorothea Lange
[Photographer, b. 1895, Hoboken, New Jersey, d. 1965, San Francisco.]
To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting.
Boris Mikhailov
[Photographer, b. 1938, Kharkov, Ukraine, lives in Kharkov and Berlin.]
Photographic accident may be more interesting than a consciously constructed collage.
