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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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"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."
"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."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."
"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
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"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 photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."
"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
"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."
"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."
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