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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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"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."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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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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"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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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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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them."
People
"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
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"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
Art
"Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum."
Motivation
"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
Society
"If one could amputate part of one's consciousness..."
Mind
"To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance."
Philosophy
"One person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing."
Philosophy
"Sanity is a cozy lie."
Lie
"That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life."
Philosophy
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