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By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all.

Bill Brandt

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
BILL BRANDT

Dare Mediums Photography
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
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
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
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 the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
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Country Jobs Photography Receptiveness
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
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Everything Photography Sports Tried
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.
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Conventions Photography Sports
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
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Patience Photography Waiting
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
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.
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Distinction Photographer Produce
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
Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.
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Approach Dignity Indeed Place Simplest Surroundings
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer’s aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject’s entire future.
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Oracles Portraits Profound
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
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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Environment Individual Photographer

By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all.

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