To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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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.
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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
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The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
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Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
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