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The artist's eye must be hungry, and my eye is hungry.

Walker Evans

I do regard photography as an extremely difficult act. I believe the achievement of a work that is evocative, and mysterious, and at the same time realistic, is a great one, and rare one, and perhaps, sometimes, almost- an accident. It’s akin to hunting. Photography is. Ah...In the same way ah that you’re using a machine and you’re shooting something and you’re shooting to kill. You get the picture you want- that’s a kill. That’s a bulls-eye.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.