Max Pam famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.
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[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that life - that photography could deliver you that life.
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I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.
-- Max Pam
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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.
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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).
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The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
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Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
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