Marcey Jacobson famous quotes

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.
-- Marcey Jacobson

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Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

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.

The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

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

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.