The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work … - Clarence John Laughlin

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Clarence John Laughlin

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition. . . my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

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Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

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It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.

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I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).

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Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.

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One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.

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If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

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