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I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. ↗

— Diane Arbus

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know. ↗

— Peter Gasser

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What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: She is going to die: I shudder… over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! ↗

— Ansel Adams

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Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ↗

— Eddie Adams

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Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer ↗

— Walter De Mulder

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الصُور الجماعية المُعلَّقة على الجدار بها شخص مفقود ؛ . دائماً يتنازل عن مكانهِ لِيلتقط الصُورة ↗

— Nour Albawardi

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People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera. ↗

— Erica O'Rourke

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The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

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