Daido Moriyama Quotes
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.
Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.
Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.
The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.
