jikatu: "Photographic seeing meant an aptitude for discovering beauty in what everybody sees but neglects as too ordinary" | 130520-0136-jikatu
jikatu: "Photographs are, of course, artifacts. But their appeal is that they also seem, in a world littered with photographic relics, to have the status of found objects—unpremeditated slices of the world" | 120903-9557-jikatu
jikatu: "...photographing people is that you are not intervening in their lives, only visiting them." | 120713-6080-jikatu
jikatu: "To photograph is to confer importance" | 120525-1531-jikatu
jikatu: "Photographs do more than redefine the stuff of ordinary experience" | 120325-9079-jikatu
jikatu: "...they are attempts to contact or lay claim to another reality" | 120130-6432-jikatu
jikatu: Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood | Art from the Sky Series | 120617-2646-jikatu
jikatu: “you cannot claim to have really seen something until you have photographed it” | 130508-9384-jikatu
jikatu: "After the event has ended, the picture will still exist, conferring on the event a kind of immortality (and importance) it would never otherwise have enjoyed" | 121020-4256-jikatu
jikatu: From being “out there,” the world comes to be “inside” photographs | 120615-2360-jikatu
jikatu: "The painter constructs, the photographer discloses" | 120315-8926-jikatu
jikatu: "The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better” | 120104-5484-jikatu
jikatu: "photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful" | 120301-8205-jikatu
jikatu: Photography... "a device that captures it all, that seduces subjects into disclosing their secrets, that broadens experience" | 120226-8076-jikatu
jikatu: "Photographs create the beautiful" | 120218-7683-jikatu
jikatu: "Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects" | 120210-7189-jikatu