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Photography Quotes
"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."
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"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
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"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
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"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
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"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."
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"In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated."
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"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"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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"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."
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"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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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."
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