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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman
He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
John Sexton
I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.
Ben Shahn
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
Gabriel Lippmann 
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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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Robert Frank
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Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
Paul Strand
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People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
Spike Lee
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
August Sander
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In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
William Albert Allard
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