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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

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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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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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Animal Courage Encounter Quality Real
The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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’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
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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