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• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking,…
• One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
• To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and…
• Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his…
• That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not…
• It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
• A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
• Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all…
• Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
• To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,
• Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase…
• I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human…

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