Ability Quote by W. Eugene Smith

“With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.”

W. Eugene Smith

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... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

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Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

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I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were in the war would believe that I had truthfully captured what they had gone through I worked in the framework that war is horrible. I want to carry on what I have tried to do in…

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I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist—a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and…

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The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

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What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.

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You can't photograph if you're not in love.

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I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

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I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

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Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion…

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