Galen Rowell | "I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

Galen Rowell, American Photographer

Journalism, Eye, Film, World

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"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

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"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."

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"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."

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"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events."

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"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."

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"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."

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"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."

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"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."

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"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

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"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better."

Vision

"I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails."

Vision

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

Journalism

"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."

Photography

"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light."

Thought

"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."

Photography

"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."

Photography

"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."

Question

"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world."

Body

"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm."

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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

Author Name

Personal Development

"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."

Author Name

Personal Development

"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events."

Author Name

Personal Development

Author Name

Personal Development

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Author Name

Personal Development

"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."

Author Name

Personal Development

"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."

Author Name

Personal Development

"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better."

Vision

"I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails."

Vision

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

Journalism

"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."

Photography

"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light."

Thought

"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."

Photography

"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."

Photography

"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."

Question

"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world."

Body

"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm."

Photography