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> [Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-weston/ultimately-success-or-failure-in-photographing-people-depends-on-the/)

[Edward Weston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-weston/)

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> [What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-benjamin/what-we-must-demand-from-the-photographer-is-the-ability-to-put-such/)

[Walter Benjamin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-benjamin/)

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