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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
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"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
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"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."
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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
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