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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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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Exhaustion Hate Life Photography Theme
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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Eye Life More Phenomenon Photography Psychological
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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Appear Fight Photography State Sunday Today
Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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Crumble Edge Enormous People Realizing
The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I’ve heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal.
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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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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Enough Life Obvious Photography Picturesque
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Instrument People Photograph Teach
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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Close Country Itself Look People Scruntnize Visually
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the 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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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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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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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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Being Frame Life Lost Make Mind Photography Picture Subject Wonderful Yourself
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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Benefits Come Extricate Impression Look Maddening Mob Pause Quick Quiet
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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More never Phases Photographer Sure Yourself
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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