Minor White Quotes
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.
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I just love the world of photography.
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Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.
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I first worked on sports photography, and it was until 2002, when I was already 32 years old, that I really started working and enjoying Africa's wildlife.
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I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
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If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
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I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.
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War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.
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I really respect fashion, but I don't follow trends to be honest, I'm much more into skateboarder style clothes, but I really like fashion photography, portraits, and stuff like that.
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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
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For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
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In the 1950's there was a kind of agreement that a good artist would do something in his picture that acknowledge the edge, but it was a question of doing something when you got to the edge. Cropping was something new. It came from photography and from w:Clement Greenberg. It was resisted as being too easy.
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I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.
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If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.
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Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.
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Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.
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Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
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When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
