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• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
• The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life.…
• The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on…
• The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work…
• When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
• A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
• There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If…
• I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...
• Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
• It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create…
• The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself…
• A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

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