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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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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
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
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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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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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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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander.
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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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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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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 … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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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
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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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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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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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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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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