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I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

Dorothea Lange

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
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
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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Ignorant Mind Open Possible Territory Unknown Wide
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Camera Creativity Inspirational Instrument People Photography Teaching
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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Consequence Good Object Photo Photograph
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Before Exhausted Photographer Possibility Soon Subject
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
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
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
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
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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Creative Effort Human Machine Need Time
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
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
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
I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Beautiful Believe Generally Product
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

I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.

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