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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."
"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."
"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"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."
"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."
"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."
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"The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue."
"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
"In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima."
"When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection."
"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
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