Dieter Appelt Quotes

• A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

  Dieter Appelt

  Long, Snapshots, Return

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• White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.

  Dieter Appelt

  Photography, Light, Color White

  Sylvia Wolf, Dieter Appelt, Wieland Schmied (1994). “Dieter Appelt”, Art Institute of Chicago

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