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To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. ↗

— Kim Edwards

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When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. ↗

— Robert Frank

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Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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The eye should learn to listen before it looks. ↗

— Robert Frank

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All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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