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"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
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"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
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"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
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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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"I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later."
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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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"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
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"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."
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"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is."
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"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
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"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately."
Age
"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."
Change
"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."
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"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
Photography
"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
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"I see no reason for recording the obvious."
Obvious
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
Photography
"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."
Reason
"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."
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