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Quotes by Photographer
"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."
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"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists."
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"It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse."
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"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity."
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"All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot."
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"People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other."
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"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."
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"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
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"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light."
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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
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"I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen."
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"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
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"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."
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"The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art."
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"No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life."
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"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
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"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
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"When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing."
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"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important."
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"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."
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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
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"When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation."
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"We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?"
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"Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera."
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"You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth."
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"I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel."
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"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."
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"The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house."
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"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
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"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."
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"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."
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"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
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"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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"Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group."
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"I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails."
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"Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell."
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"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
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"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished."
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"This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous."
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"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
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"I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like."
Life,
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"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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"There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them."
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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
Act,
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