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    Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.

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    Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake.

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    Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

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    That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

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    That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better.

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    The camera can photograph thought.

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    The best photographs are made by the best people.

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    The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

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    The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

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    The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

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    The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

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    The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

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    The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.

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    The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

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    The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

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    ...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

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    The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

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    The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

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    The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

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    The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

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    The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

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    The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

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    The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

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    The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

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    The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

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    [The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

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    The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.

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    The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

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    [The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

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    The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

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    There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

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    There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

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    The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

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    There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

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    There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

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    There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

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    There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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    There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

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    There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

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    There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

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    There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.

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    There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

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    The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

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    The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

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    The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

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    The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.

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    The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

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    This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

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    The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

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    Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.