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The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not…
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come…
Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and…
It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be…
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced…
Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built…
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to.…

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The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning. — John Szarkowski

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