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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, read more
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with read more
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. read more
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that read more
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it read more
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
