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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.

Bill Brandt

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
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
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
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
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 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
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.
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Believe Emotional Photography
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
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
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
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
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Dare Mediums Photography
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
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
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 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

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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