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"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
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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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"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."
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"Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one."
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"Once you get the right image the details aren't that important."
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"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
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"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
Photography
"At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it."
Talent
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."
Career
"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."
Poverty
"And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start."
Now
"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."
Career
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
Discrimination
"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."
Chance
"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."
Career
"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."
People
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