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Photography
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I think there isn’t a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability.
They do not tell stories. They show you what something looks like. To a camera.
Garry Winogrand
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Do you think it’s possible for the camera to lie?”
“It certainly is. It almost always does.”
Walker Evans
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
Berenice Abbott
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts, whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
Diane Arbus
For me, the subject of a picture is always more important than the picture. And more complicated.
Diane Arbus
There’s nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
Let us first say what photography is not.
A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, or a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality.
It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term – selectivity.
Berenice Abbott
People say they need to express their emotions, I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions, it teaches you to see.
Berenice Abbott
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.
Garry Winogrand
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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