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> [The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-loengard/the-fact-is-that-the-camera-is-literal-if-anything-which-gives-it/)

[John Loengard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-loengard/)

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