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"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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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."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
"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."
"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."
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"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
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