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Galen Rowell

"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."

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"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."

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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."

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Akiroq Brost

"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."

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"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."

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"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."

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"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."

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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."

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"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."

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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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"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."

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Galen Rowell
"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better."

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Galen Rowell
"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."

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Galen Rowell
"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."

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Galen Rowell
"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."

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Galen Rowell
"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."

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Galen Rowell
"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm."

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Galen Rowell
"My first thought is always of light."

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Galen Rowell
"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."

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Galen Rowell
"I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra."

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Galen Rowell
"One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it."

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