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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
To manipulate an image is to control a people
To manipulate an image is to control a people
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because read more
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
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.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the read more
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable read more
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. read more
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
