51 Quotes by John Paul Caponigro

Seeing creates growth.

I don’t trust any camera you can’t make out of wood.

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context and supplemental information to confirm our observations, not simply the documents themselves.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

Photographs are never records of the way things are; they’re records of the way things were.

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind’s eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more – second hand.