Larry Towell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People arenâ€™t photographing for history any more. Itâ€™s for immediate gratification. If youâ€™re photographing to share an image, youâ€™re not photographing to keep it.
-- Larry Towell

#People #Share #Immediate Gratification
If thereâ€™s one theme that connects all my work, I think itâ€™s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.
-- Larry Towell

#Thinking #Land #People
Be yourself and look outside of yourself.
-- Larry Towell

#Being Yourself #Looks
My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.
-- Larry Towell

#Tired #Years #Wife
People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.
-- Larry Towell

#People #Share #Immediate Gratification
If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.
-- Larry Towell

#Thinking #Land #People
... photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes?
-- Larry Towell

#Eye #Rewards #Necks
Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.
-- Larry Towell

#Photography #First Love #Looks

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.
The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.
Theatre is immediate gratification
People arenâ€™t photographing for history any more. Itâ€™s for immediate gratification. If youâ€™re photographing to share an image, youâ€™re not photographing to keep it.

Larry Towell famous quotes

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