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I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

Bill Brandt

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
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Dark Light Photography
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
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Dare Mediums Photography
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
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
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
Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing. And so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us.
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Emotions Essence Hidden Minds Most Pleasure Simple
When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw,
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Beauty Cameras Eye
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!
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Everything Photography Sports Tried
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 interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

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