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It must be stressed that the essential tool of the photographic process....
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When I started my adventure in photography, I was suddenly introduced to the world around me....
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I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.....
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The world makes up my pictures....
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When I choose the negatives to print, I do it partially by whim: I let my eye do the thinking....
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I am driven by a desire to illustrate vital processes that concern us all to the highest degree yet are invisible....
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..a good photograph must have the element of good design: Everything within the photograph has to be essential....
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There are two things I wanted to do. I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected....
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Photography is the easiest art....
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I consider the act of taking pictures as an artistic performance in itself: a sum of movements, which have no finality other than their own perfection....
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Very few people have 20/20 vision and the lens of a camera....
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A book was once published of twenty photographs by twenty photographers, of the same model. They were as different as twenty paintings of the same model....
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A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera....
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By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited -- as all good photographers like to be -- in the right place at the right time....
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People ask me, ‘What kind of pictures do you take?’ And I don’t know how to answer, because I can’t stand the word ‘artistic’....
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Of course photography cannot create, nor express all we want to express....
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When someone looks at one of my photographs I want it to touch all their senses.I want them to feel the gust of wind that blew the mans hat off or the gentle breeze that moved the curtains....
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Photographic technique must become second nature - like driving a car. The knowledge of the craft aspects has to sink into your muscles and fingers....
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Having a camera around your neck....
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A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn’t the truth either....
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Constantly ask yourself, 'what the heck would what I'm looking at look like framed, still, two-dimensional, in black and white'? If the search for an answer gets your heart pumping....
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My favorite photographs speak eloquently....
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We eat good food to keep our bodies healthy. I digest good photos as my visual nutrition....
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Yes. The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time, I have to look a little deeper. The images get more interesting....
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I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already been made....
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Technical ability aside, the difference is commitment. Some people look at whatever they do as a job....
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Very often I try to find something that matches a feeling I have. On the other hand, a lot of times I photograph with nothing specific in mind....
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I failed a lot. Failing is so important. It’s been such a plus for me....
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Physically, looking through a giant ground glass and seeing how the world looks is amazing....
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We become very impressed when we get to look inside ourselves, into pictures. That's the relationship we have with pictures....
