week 4 quotes

This weeks quotes are both from Paul Strand

“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you,” he said. “If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness.”

This just means that someone who is alive and wants to be a photographer will be able to photograph anything and there will be meaning to it. It makes me think of that old saying "only boring people get bored", it's sort of the same principle but applied to photography.


“Your photography is a record of your living--for anyone who really sees,” Strand said. “You may see and be affected by other people’s ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have to eventually free yourself from them.”

You eventually have to find your own way, you can't always just be influenced by what you see in other people.