#photograph

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. ↗

— Diane Arbus

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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ↗

— Richard Avedon

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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. ↗

— Marc Riboud

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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. ↗

— Bill Brandt

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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. ↗

— Bill Brandt

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When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things. ↗

— Wynn Bullock

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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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