NEW Instagram: @mitchcullin5
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I’m very delighted to have been interviewed by PINEAPPLE ZINE for its online blog. You can check it out here (along with a sampling of my images): http://pnpplzine.com/index.php/2019/11/01/interview-with-mitch-cullin/
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I’m very honored that my photo essay “Roadside Morocco” is featured by NVRMIND Paper as its first ever online exclusive. You can check it out here: http://nvrmindpaper.online/index.php/2019/10/08/mitch-cullin/
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New Instagram account
@mitchcullin1 is no more (disabled by Instagram), but you can still connect with me at @mitchcullin2
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My botanical documents should contribute
to restoring the link with nature.
They should reawaken a sense of nature,
point to its teeming richness of form,
and prompt the viewer
to observe for himself
the surrounding plant world.
Karl Blossfeldt
[Photographer, b. 1865, Schielo, Germany, d. 1932, Berlin.]
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I often think
of what I photograph
as a soap opera,
where I am waiting
for the right cast
to fall into place.
Martin Parr
[Photographer, b. 1952, Epson, Surrey, England, lives in Bristol and London, England.]
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Anybody will be able to observe
how much more easily a painting,
and above all sculpture or architecture
can be grasped in photographs
than in reality.
Walter Benjamin
[Philosopher, critic, and theorist, b. 1892, Berlin, d. 1940, Port Bou, France.]
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We face the prospect of being reduced
to the status of consumers who,
given a hyper-abundance of choices,
lack the ability to choose.
Those in power benefit
from this abandonment of discernment;
they get to make the choices for us.
Thus the liberty of an unchecked image environment
may prove to be less a blessing
than a subtle form of tyranny,
and the democracy of the camera
a perverse kind of fascism.
Andy Grundberg
[Critic, curator, and educator, lives in Washington, D.C.]
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I can’t photograph the past.
I can only photograph
what happens in the moment
I encounter this particular object,
my most personal reactions,
what I feel and see.
Ishiuchi Miyako
[Photographer, b. 1947, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
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We are drawn to photographs
on museum walls,
and to those in family albums as well.
In just such a way (we think to ourselves),
in sunlight indistinguishable
from that of tomorrow afternoon,
this woman, this child, this Indian chief posed;
bodies now forever dissolved
were in a certain instant
bombarded by photons,
were inarguably there.
John Updike
[Writer, b. 1932, Shillington, Pennsylvania, d. 2009, Boston, Massachusetts.]
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If an artist does not have
an erotic involvement
with everything that he sees,
he may as well give up.
To be a human being
may be a very messy thing,
but to be an artist
is something else entirely,
because art is religion,
art is sex, art is society.
Art is everything.
Lucas Samaras
[Artist, b. 1936, Kastoria, Greece, lives in New York.]
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I did not start out as a photographer
but, instead, as a writer.
Whether for good or ill,
this fact has inspired
and colored many of my concepts.
Through photography
I have also tried to tie together
and further my active interests
in painting, in poetry, in psychology,
and in architecture.
Whatever value my photography has,
it is only because of these other interests.
Clarence John Laughlin
[Photographer, b. 1905, Lake Charles, Louisiana, d. 1985, New Orleans, Louisiana.]
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One reason
I was interested in photography
was to get away
from the preciousness
of the art object.
Cindy Sherman
[Artist, b. 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, lives in New York.]
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It is light that reveals,
light that obscures,
light that communicates.
It is light I “listen” to.
The light late in the day
has a distinct quality,
as it fades
toward the darkness of evening.
After sunset
there is a gentle leaving
of the light,
the air begins to still,
and a quiet descends.
I see magic
in the quiet light of dusk.
I feel quiet,
yet intense energy
in the natural elements
of our habitat.
A sense of magic prevails.
A sense of mystery.
It is a time for contemplation,
for listening—
a time for making photographs.
John Sexton
[Photographer, b. 1953, Maywood, California, lives in California.]
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Old lovers go the way
of old photographs,
bleaching out gradually
as in a slow bath of acid:
first the moles and pimples,
then the shadings.
Then the faces themselves,
until nothing remains
but the general outlines.
Margaret Atwood
[Writer, b. 1939, Ottawa, Canada, lives in Toronto.]
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I came to Los Angeles
for two reasons:
The first was a photo
by Julius Shulman
of Case Study House #21,
and the other was
the Atheletic Model Guildʼs
Physique Pictorial.
David Hockney
[Artist, b. 1937, Bradford, England, lives in Bridlington, Yorkshire; London; and Los Angeles.]
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I don’t care about fashion at all.
And I know it’s kind of a dodgy thing
to be a fashion photographer,
a kind of pathetic occupation,
but I like it, even though I question it.
Juergen Teller
[Photographer, b. 1964, Erlangen, Germany, lives in London.]
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