Richard Kalvar Born : 1944 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Richard Kalvar The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography. Richard Kalvar excited photography looks It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense. Richard Kalvar expenses jokes I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with the ambiguity of appearances. Things are what they seem to be, or maybe something else. I use people as unconscous actors in little dramas they don't know they're in. These pictures are about Earthlings, but I'll let you in on a secret: I'm an Earthling myself. Richard Kalvar play drama reality A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength. Richard Kalvar silence two reality
