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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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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
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Closely Country Ever Itself Scruntinzed Visually
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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The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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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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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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Ahead Along False Know Limit Look Mean Own Photographer Photography Preconception Put
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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Go Head Neck Need Over Passion
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
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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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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Consequences Good Lens Object Photograph Photography
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
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Alter Change Hold Inspirational Instant Life Photography Take
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
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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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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Audience Cat Large People Photographer Photography Predatory Tell
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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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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Accident Become Lion More Photographer Tamer
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Believe Camera Live Use

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