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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"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."
"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."
"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."
"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."
"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
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