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"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is."
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"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."
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"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."
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"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
"Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of."
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