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“To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs…” quote by Minor White — Download Open image

“To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.”

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When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave…

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Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

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In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

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Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

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When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was…

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Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

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Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or…

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Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its…

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Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

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We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography…

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At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

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At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there…

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