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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the…

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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...

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