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"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
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"I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position."
"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."
"It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal."
"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."
"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."
"My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds."
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