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"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."
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
"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."
"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations."
"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
"Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer."
"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
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"I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology."
"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."
"I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us."
"I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word."
"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."
"Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print."
"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college."
"So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera."
"So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement."
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