Shomei Tomatsu Professions : Photographer Born : January 16, 1930 Died : December 14, 2012 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Shomei Tomatsu Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you. Shomei Tomatsu photography mean moving Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing. Shomei Tomatsu doctors eye people In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts. Shomei Tomatsu loneliness photography matter In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection. Shomei Tomatsu diving photography sea A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world. Shomei Tomatsu eye looks world If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one. Shomei Tomatsu seven photographer ifs A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience. Shomei Tomatsu fragments body photograph Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
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