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"Contrast is what makes photography interesting."
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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 the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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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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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
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"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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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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"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
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"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."
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"My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar."
Winning

"I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80."
Hope

"With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art."
Art

"Painting and writing are solitary arts."
Painting

"It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema."
History

"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
Music

"Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry."
History

"I realize that every picture isn't a work of art."
Art

"I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end."
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