Douglas McCulloh
[Photographer, b. 1959, Los Angeles, lives in Los Angeles.]
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism—the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.
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To teach consequential photography, don’t bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.
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A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.
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Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.
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If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you’ll find the real artifice underneath.
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It is not the task of photography to depict the world. Photography concerns what we can say about the world.
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The average photography web site is like a small-scale cemetery, but twice as dead.
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Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.
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