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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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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"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."
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"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"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."
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"I've got a great collection of photography."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"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."
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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."
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"I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected."
Care

"When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing."
Time

"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."
Heart

"I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me."
Reason

"There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them."
Love

"It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal."
Now

"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."
Love

"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism."
Journalism

"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm."
Environment
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