If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

quote by Janet Malcolm
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Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.

quote by William Leith
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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.

quote by George Eastman
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Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.

quote by Matthew Brady
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I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

quote by Kim Weston
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

quote by W. Eugene Smith
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Memories of Mom

There is nothing I can think of
That brings back old memories
As much as old family photos
What a treat they are for me

Especially ones of my mom
The woman who brought me up
I love to see her beautiful smile
I remember her tender touch

The old photos of her ironing
Reminds me of all her hard work
All the years that I was going up
There wasn’t a chore she would shirk

Oh look, at the little building
That had nearly fallen down
Mom and I were both born there
It’s a rare photo that I found

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poem by Marilyn Lott
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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

quote by Edward Steichen
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I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

quote by Jamie Lee Curtis
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Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

quote by Ken Auletta
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What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

quote by William Albert Allard
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There's No Photo Finish Needed

There's no photo finish needed,
For the one...
Who has succeeded.
For the one...
Undefeated.
For the one...
Who has completed,
Passing tests with peace of mind.
And doing this from time to time.

There's no photo finish needed,
For the one...
Who has succeeded.
For the one...
Undefeated.
For the one...
Who has completed,
Passing tests with peace of mind.
And doing this from time to time.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

quote by Susan Sontag
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I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

quote by Robert Mapplethorpe
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

quote by Fay Godwin
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I've got a great collection of photography.

quote by Elton John
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Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.

quote by Katherine Dunham
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

quote by Galen Rowell
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People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

quote by Tobey Maguire
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You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

quote by Robert Frank
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