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It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual’s temperament and environment.

Bill Brandt

The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things … a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a cat crossing the threshold.
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Cat Light Passing Stress
Sometimes they are a matter of luck, sometimes of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that you have seen. It is usually some incidental detail that heightens the effect of a picture, stressing a pattern, deepening the sense of atmosphere.
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Details Height Patience Seen Sometimes
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
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Paper Photography Shade
I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.
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Interfere Liter Observed Photographer Shapes
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work.
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Occasions Often Photography Simple Work
By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.
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Hurry Opportunities Photography Profession
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
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Matter Photography Sports
It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of a child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country
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Children Country Jobs Receptiveness Something
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Giving Photography
We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare
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Busy Most Obsessed Ourselves Satre Worried
It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual’s temperament and environment.
BILL BRANDT

Environment Individual Photographer
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.
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Children Looks World
A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned.
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Asset Develop Leamed Photographer
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried and dared…
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Photography Sports
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
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Conventions Photography Sports
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
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Everything Photography Sports Tried

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual’s temperament and environment.

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It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual’s temperament and environment.

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