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When I first made photographs,...

When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it...

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The secret of photography is, ...

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

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Detachment, lack of sentimenta...

Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, 'visual impact' may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong...

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The eye traffics in feelings, ...

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

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Photography is not cute cats, ...

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

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In order to put meaning back i...

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

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Leaving aside the mysteries an...

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

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The meaning of quality in phot...

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

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It's easy to photograph light ...

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

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Science has discovered much. T...

Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?

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Whether he is an artist or not...

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.

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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop....

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

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I never took it upon myself to...

I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.

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You see, a document has use, w...

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

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When you say documentary, you ...

When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.

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Science has rolled its war wag...

Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

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What America needs is a politi...

What America needs is a political revolution.

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I used to try to figure out pr...

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there it is.

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What I believe is really good ...

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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Nobody should touch a Polaroid...

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....