Listen to Aaron Siskind discussing influences on his documentary photography
Aaron Siskind discussing the influences on his documentary photography, from the...
Checkerboard Film Foundation (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Transcript
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[Laughter]
AARON SISKIND: What I was concerned with was what a picture can mean, what a picture can say. And I was kind of examining and, to a certain extent, challenging all the premises of--of social documentation. What I was really interested in was making pictures which satisfy me--which has a certain kind of beauty and had a certain kind of mystery and had a kind of enchantment. But it was just merely because I isolated subject matter that the documentary guy thought I was running away from life, so to speak [laughter].
[Laughter]
AARON SISKIND: What I was concerned with was what a picture can mean, what a picture can say. And I was kind of examining and, to a certain extent, challenging all the premises of--of social documentation. What I was really interested in was making pictures which satisfy me--which has a certain kind of beauty and had a certain kind of mystery and had a kind of enchantment. But it was just merely because I isolated subject matter that the documentary guy thought I was running away from life, so to speak [laughter].