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Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. James Balog

Time People Back Given Could Merciless Look Hindsight How Era Been Wonder Any Often Predecessors

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that. James Balog

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I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. James Balog

Photography Perception Way Shape Always Human Believed

You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years. James Balog

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Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry. James Balog

Science Important About Dry Itself Very Measuring Things Numbers

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures. James Balog

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone. James Balog

Nature Back Further Composed Atmosphere Percent Something Variation Records Outside Beyond Terms Within How Years Normal Lot Than Did Goes Ice Show Forty Sudden Now Actually Million Million Years Zone Oscillation Core

I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty. James Nachtwey

Beauty Think Devoid Tragic Situations Necessarily

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. James Nachtwey

Service Photography People Try Whatever Photographing About Know Use

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it. James Nachtwey

Experience Reality Believe Objective Only Any Thing

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events. James Nachtwey

Me Events Own Interpretation Other Punches Give My Own Never None Editors Than Anything Them Worked Asked Ever Pull

I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love for the form and different aspects of the horse. Then I thought about the bit, halter, and bridle in terms of how we harness and ride this animal. There were a lot of interesting elements to explore. Jill Greenberg

Love Time Animal Ride Thought Daughter Harness Spending Spending Time Bit About Horse Reminded Terms She How Were Lot Different Form While Interesting Then Explore Aspects Bridle Riding Elements Started

No one would bring their horse into a studio, because they don't want to bring their prized animals into an environment where they wouldn't be comfortable or where they might panic and hurt themselves. Jill Greenberg

Hurt Animals Panic Would Horse No-One Studio Environment Comfortable Because Prized Where Want Might Themselves Bring

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them. Jim Goldberg

Work Witness Though Tell Kind Photographs Runs Thread About Bearing Through Since Well Another Answering Been Text Questions Order Stories Them Asking Asking Questions Using

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before. Jim Goldberg

Good You Before Find Always Found Things

I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically. Jim Goldberg

Radical More Fact Aesthetically Person Politically Being In Fact Interested Much

In Europe, I am an outsider. I don't really understand anything that I am seeing. I can be welcomed into people's homes, I can be met with suspicion, I can be taken somewhere else altogether. There is always wonderment there for me, even if the person I am photographing may not see it or be aware of it. Jim Goldberg

Me People Somewhere Met Else Photographing See Seeing Somewhere Else Outsider Taken Welcomed Altogether Understand Always Am Person May Suspicion Anything Really Europe Even Aware Homes

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. Jock Sturges

Truth Truth Is Birth Fairly Another Sensual Species Extent

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions. Jock Sturges

Am Human Human Body Body Fascinated

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill. Jock Sturges

Myself Good Concerned Became As Far As Transient Far Skill Defending

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. Jock Sturges

Art Back About Rather Talk Making Than Get

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