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In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ↗

— John Sexton

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Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful. ↗

— Don Roff

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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are like applause. ↗

— A.K. Nicholas

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Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with the past and validate as real what the passage of time has turned into hazy recollections. Were it not for them, my experiences would have remained as just imperfect memories of perfect moments. ↗

— Isabel Lopez

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John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it. ↗

— Joe McNally

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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever…it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. ↗

— Aaron Siskind

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The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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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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