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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is read more
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best read more
The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.
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.
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic read more
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail read more
If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output.
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.
When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".
When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".