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• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
• I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
• Available light is any damn light that is available!
• Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed…
• Hardening of the categories causes art disease.
• Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know…
• What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
• The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the…
• In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures…
• My pictures are complex and so am I.
• Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical…
• The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes.…

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