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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What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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Photography helps people to see.
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