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April 5, 2008
I purchased a camera and together we dedicated ourselves to the clandestine task of taking photographs in the parks, together with a Mexican who had a small laboratory where we developed our photographs. We got to know the whole Mexico City, walking from one end to the other to deliver our dreadful photographs, fighting with every kind of client to convince them that in truth the little child in the photograph was very beautiful and that it was worth paying one Mexican peso for this wonder. - Che Guevara
I got this one from a very interesting book, with more than 250 of photographs [many never published before] and more than 100 quotations from Che Guevara's writings, personal correspondence, and speeches.
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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March 21, 2008
Today a wonderful quote from the late John Szarkowski
“One might compare the art of photography to the act of pointing. It must be true that some of us point to more interesting facts, events, circumstances, and configurations than others [...] The talented practitioner of the new discipline would perform with a special grace, sense of timing, narrative sweep, and wit, thus endowing the act not merely with intelligence, but with that quality of formal rigor that identifies a work of art, so that we would be uncertain, when remembering the adventure of the tour, how much our pleasure and sense of enlargement had come from the things pointed to and how much from a pattern created by the pointer.”- John Szarkowski
Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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January 31, 2008
This is why we start, this is why we keep doing it ..., isn't it?
In the moments when inspiration does not find our path, or when the jobs are scarce or the client complains too much ... remember, it is all about the fun. Enjoy the moments when photography flows from inside ...
More about Jacques-Henri Lartigue after the jump. Some pictures here, here, here and here.
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Miguel Garcia-Guzman
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