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Leonard Nimoy
March 26, 1931 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actor
Subcategory: American Actor

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

   

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

   

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

   

I've been working with photography for many years.

   

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

   

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

   

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

   

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

   

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

   

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

   

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

   

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

   

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

   

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

   

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

   

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

   

I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

   

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

   

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

   

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

   

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