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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.
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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…
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Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come…
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Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and…
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It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be…
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
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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.
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