Douglas McCulloh Quotes & Sayings

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years. — Douglas McCulloh

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement. — Douglas McCulloh

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. — Douglas McCulloh

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images. — Douglas McCulloh

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa. — Douglas McCulloh

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. — Douglas McCulloh

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it. — Douglas McCulloh

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath. — Douglas McCulloh