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Fay Godwin

"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."

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"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

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"I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process."
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"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination."
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"But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living."
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"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training."
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"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."
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"I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits."
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"I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits."
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"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."
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"What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed."
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"I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me."
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