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Nature's children do not reveal their intimate ways to the bustling, human noise-maker, and he who would seek to know something of their interesting daily doings must first of all acquire the faculty to observe whilst remaining unobserved, and hear without being heard.
Cherry Kearton
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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 always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
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The desert... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the successes... both noble and foolish, are readily apparent in the desert. Symbols and relationships seem to arise that stand for the human condition itself.
Richard Misrach
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My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.
Jerome Liebling
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To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.
John Divola
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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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Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
Dawoud Bey
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Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.
William Mortensen
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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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I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
Eliot Porter
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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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Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.
Robert Polidori
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The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.
John Coplans
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The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about something. When I photograph I try to be as aware of my feelings as I can be to somehow try and get them out of me and onto the film in terms of the way I am responding or seeing the world.
Judy Dater
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In my work, the information is the least important part. It's there, and the work wouldn't mean the same thing without it, but it isn't structured around the information. The most interesting part to me is the visual play... looking at this little universe of representation that I can make out of the world.
Judy Fiskin
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Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.
Paul Strand
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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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The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying....
Chris Bonington
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All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.
Lotte Jacobi
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Happiness is a sort of perfume. You can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
James Van Der Zee
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A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
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Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.
Alexander Gardner (photographer)
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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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It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.
Helen Levitt
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