Polaroid Camera Quotes by Walker Evans

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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.
• The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not…
• Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come…
• Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and…
• It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
• I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be…
• That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
• Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty
• What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced…
• Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built…
• I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to.…

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