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All knowledge is self-reflective.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
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Self
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Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
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In the arts there are many right answers.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Art
Answers
Photographer
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The camera basically is a license to explore.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Cameras
License
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Photography is just light remembering itself.
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Light
Photographer
Photography
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I have gradually confused photography with life.
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Confused
Photographer
Photography
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I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.
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Ideas
Photographer
Trying
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The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality
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Cameras
Reality
Way
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The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.
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Blessed
Ideas
Photographer
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The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Anticipation
Joy
Possibility
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It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.
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Growing
Ignorance
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The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.
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Artist
Goal
Photographer
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I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
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Obvious
Photograph
Thinking
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The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.
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Creative
Photographer
Photography
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I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Clue
Photographer
Years
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My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Desire
Feelings
Ideas
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It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Believe
Computer
Photography
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Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Art
Frustration
Order
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I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Attitude
Crafts
Photography
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I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Believe
Confused
Photography
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When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Doe
Suffering
Vitality
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My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.
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Creative
People
Photography
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I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.
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Mind
Photographer
Thinking
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Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.
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Finals
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Process
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Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Creating Value
Numbers
Photography
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The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
Jerry Uelsmann / Photographer
Cells
Phones
Simple
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And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.
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Photography
Real
Thinking
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Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.
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Moving
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Thinking
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The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?
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Artist
Eye
Photography
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One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.
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