Burk Uzzle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Photography is a love affair with life.
-- Burk Uzzle

#Photography #Affair #Love Affair
A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal photographs. Others, audaciously and arrogantly and courageously discharge their most private feelings through photography. Trouble is, sometimes it all adds up to baloney.
-- Burk Uzzle

#Photography #Careers #Feelings
After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.
-- Burk Uzzle

#Philosophical #Years #Trying
You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.
-- Burk Uzzle

#Hair #Perfection #Fleeting
I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.
-- Burk Uzzle

#Photography #Running #Country

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

Burk Uzzle famous quotes

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