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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.

Dorothea Lange

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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Breath Hope Moment Stand Still Wait Waiting
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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Along Around Body Camera Life Neck People Share Shoes Show
To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Enormous Life Live Touch Undertaking Visual
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Enough Life Obvious Photography Picturesque
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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Bystanders Perception Side Thought Viewer
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Believe Camera Live Use
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
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Consequence Good Object Photo Photograph
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 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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Neck Over Photographer Realize Take You
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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Another Eye Life More Nothing Own Perhaps Photograph Photography Province
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Act Appear Art Attention Beauty Deeply Feel Total
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Beautiful Believe Generally Product
I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
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Animal Courage Encounter Highest Said Time Undeniable
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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Advantage Being Different Disabled People Perspective
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Documentaries Factual Life Photography

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