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I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around or being distracted by something else. What photography does really is it forces you to examine something you normally wouldn't.
Grant Mudford
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We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
Carl Mydans
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Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.
Robert Polidori
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I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
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I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.
Sophie Ristelhueber
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Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.
Willy Ronis
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Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
Sandy Skoglund
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In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard...
Henry Holmes Smith
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Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes.
Anne Geddes
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There's an arc of being. There's a beginning, then the peak is reached and then there's the end. It's like the pole vaulter who begins his run, shoots up, then comes down. At the peak there is no movement. He's neither going up nor going down. It is that moment I wait for.
Roy DeCarava
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We are Africans not because we are born in Africa, but because Africa is born in us.
Chester Higgins, Jr.
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It was clear, I was not Manet's type. Picasso—who had a way with women—only used me & Duchamp never even considered me.
Carrie Mae Weems
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Is she as pretty as a picture
Or clear as crystal
Or pure as a lily
Or black as coal
Or sharp as a razor?
Lorna Simpson
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Infinitesimal is the nearest to zero infinitesimal is so small that it is no longer something but it is not yet nothing.
Ilse Bing
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Empty empty empty
so many empty chairs
everywhere. They look
charming in van Gogh's paintings.
Liu Xia (intellectual)
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