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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
"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."
"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck."
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"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
"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."
"These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me."
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit."
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