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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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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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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 in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning – but some phase of photographer I’ve always been.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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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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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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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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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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