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"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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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
"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."
"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"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."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."
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"My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds."
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