"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts."
"What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman."
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Source: Walker Evans, Maria Morris Hambourg, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2000). “Walker Evans”, p.131, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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