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"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing."
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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."

"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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"If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work."

"I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer."

"Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives."
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