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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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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!"

"George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that."

"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
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"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."

"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."

"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
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