"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant."

Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer

Beginning, Moments, World

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"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant."

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"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear."

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"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough."

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"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."

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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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"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."

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