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" I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way. "

Lois Greenfield

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" I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting. "

Lois Greenfield

" If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me. "

Lois Greenfield

" My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see. "

Lois Greenfield

" Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this. "

Lois Greenfield

" I shoot just one moment at a time... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception. "

Lois Greenfield

" My interest in photography is not to capture an image I see or even have in my mind, but to explore the potential of moments I can only begin to imagine. "

Lois Greenfield

" What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened. "

Lois Greenfield

" The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture. "

Lois Greenfield