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• Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
• To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
• Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately…
• A camera has interesting ideas of its own.
• The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're…
• Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
• In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he…
• Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's…
• They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other…
• The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that…
• Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
• A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

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