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Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can’t see watches you.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Beautiful Believe Generally Product
Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Around Hostile Important Itself Situation Sometimes
The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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Ignorant Mind Open Possible Territory Unknown Wide
I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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Astray Efficient Gone Instinct led Mind Trust Wrong
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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Blind Camera Photography Reality Stricken Tomorrow
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Instrument People Photograph Teach
You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.
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Along Around Body Camera Life Neck People Share Shoes Show
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Exhaustion Hate Life Photography Theme
This benefit of seeing…can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image…the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.
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Benefits Come Extricate Impression Look Maddening Mob Pause Quick Quiet
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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Before Disappear Eye Greatest People Vocabulary Word
You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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Heart People Tree Unwelcome Welcome
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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Camera Important Poor Pride Spirit Strength Thing
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Enough Life Obvious Photography Picturesque
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don’t know is how to photograph affluence – whose other face is poverty.
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Affiuelence Face People Photograph Poor Poverty Race
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Photographer Photography Unattainable Undertaking Visual

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