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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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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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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
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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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
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
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
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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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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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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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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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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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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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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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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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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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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Blind Camera Photography Realy Styricken Tomorrow Use
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

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