Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas McCulloh

Explore popular quotes and sayings by Douglas McCulloh.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Douglas McCulloh

Douglas McCulloh is an American photographer notable for conceptual photographic projects based on "systematic randomness" and chance operations. McCulloh's work is "an extension of the traditions of street photography, social documentary photography, oral history and Surrealist chance operations", states photo historian Jonathan Green. "As such, it is grounded in some of the century's most powerful conceptual currents." McCulloh is one of six photographers who in 2006 transformed an F-18 jet hangar into the world's largest camera to make the world's largest photograph. McCulloh also curates exhibitions, most notably Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists, the first major museum exhibition of work by blind photographers. McCulloh, under the nom-de-plume "Quoteman", has also collected and posted online thousands of quotations about photography.

Born: 1959
Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to subject. The ironic goal is a scrupulous recording of whatever chance brings to hand.
Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.
To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images. — © Douglas McCulloh
To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.
Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.
A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.
Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.
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