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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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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."
"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
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