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“Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.” quote by Philip Jones Griffiths — Download Open image

“Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.”

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Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.

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People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of…

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The ability to keep things in perspective is very important for a journalist. In a tense situation you need the ability to be there,…

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The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was…

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What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical…

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The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

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When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found…

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[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

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... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

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Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race.…

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Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper.

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I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter.

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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