I Was Born In The '60s And Grew Up In The '70s - Not Exactly The Best Decade For Food In British History. It Was Horrendous. It Was A Time When, As A Nation, We Excelled In Art And Music And Acting And Photography And Fashion - All Creative Skills... All Apart From Cooking.
Photograph, N. A Picture Painted By The Sun Without Instruction In Art. It Is A Little Better Than The Work Of An Apache, But Not Quite So Good As That Of A Cheyenne.
I Guess That's What I Was: A Set Of Abs. And They Lit The Abs And Shot The Abs And Sent The Abs On Their Way. The Photographer Didn't Look At My Face Once. I Was Humiliated.
In My Teens I Was Interested In Photography. Then I Decided That I Should Learn Something About The World Of Commerce. And I Came To America At Age 17 To Escape Europe. I Went To Nyu - Nothing Better Than Being 17 Years Old And Coming To New York.
The Camera Relieves Us Of The Burden Of Memory. It Surveys Us Like God, And It Surveys For Us. Yet No Other God Has Been So Cynical, For The Camera Records In Order To Forget.
Unlike Any Other Visual Image, A Photograph Is Not A Rendering, An Imitation Or An Interpretation Of Its Subject, But Actually A Trace Of It. No Painting Or Drawing, However Naturalist, Belongs To Its Subject In The Way That A Photograph Does.
What Makes Photography A Strange Invention Is That Its Primary Raw Materials Are Light And Time.
All Photographs Are There To Remind Us Of What We Forget. In This - As In Other Ways - They Are The Opposite Of Paintings. Paintings Record What The Painter Remembers. Because Each One Of Us Forgets Different Things, A Photo More Than A Painting May Change Its Meaning According To Who Is Looking At It.
Photography, Because It Stops The Flow Of Life, Is Always Flirting With Death.
