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"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
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"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."
"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"Once you get the right image the details aren't that important."
"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."
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"All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot."
"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"
"With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will."
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are."
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