Mario Giacomelli famous quotes

Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Photography #Long #Difficult

Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Sadness #Mirrors #Land

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Notebook #Photography #Earth

To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments are the greatest joys in my life, as if I were undressing the most beautiful woman in the world - that is, if she will allow herself be undressed. If the photo is a success, it means that she was willing. If not, it has been a lovely dream.
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Beautiful #Running #Dream

I try to photograph thoughts.
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Trying #Photograph

I don't know about other people's cameras. Mine is a thing I had cobbled up, it holds together with tape and is always losing parts. All I need to set is the distance and that other thing - what do you call that other thing?
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Distance #People #Together

There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyone - only against time.
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Situation #Refuse #Knows

[My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them.
-- Mario Giacomelli

#Beautiful #Photography #Mother

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.