"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators."
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"Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!"
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"The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist."
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"I think that digital is offering many great possibilities for cinematographers. Particularly in urban cityscapes and low light photography its allowing us to render what we actually see with our eyes; which is interesting."
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"There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light."
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"When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator."
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"I didn't intend to work on the issue of child marriage, but I felt like it was a topic that is related to a lot of the other issues, like acid attacks, self-immolation, and female genital mutilation. I wanted to continue to drive the conversation, but my overall goal is to protect girls. Photography has a way of addressing the viewer whether they want to deal with it or not, and that's why photography is such a good medium for documenting the issues that girls face."
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"Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
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"In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it."
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"The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man."
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"Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?"
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"Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well."
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"As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera."
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"While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph."
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"The only way to kill death is through photography."
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"Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story."
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"When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom."
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"And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college."
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"Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print."
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"I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us."
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