Photography in

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1 “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”

—Paul Strand

2 “Photography. . . offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.”

—Schopenhauer

3 “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug a camera.”

—Lewis Hine

4 “Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie. . . so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion.”

—Edward Weston

5 “Most of my photographs are compassionate, gentle, and personal. They. . . tend not to preach. And they tend not to pose as art.”

—Bruce Davidson

6 “The camera is a kind of license [to ask people about their lives]. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that’s a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.”

—Diane Arbus

7 “Photography is the only ‘language’ understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man [and] allows us to share in the hopes and despair of others.” —Helmut Gernsheim

8 “Like chess, or writing, [photography] is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.”

—John Szarkowski

9 “The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work. . . . You can only see what you are ready to see —what mirrors your mind at that particular time.”

—George Tice

10 “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.” —Garry Winogrand

11 “Photography is a tool for dealing with things every-body knows about but isn’t attending to. My photo-graphs are intended to represent something you don’t see.”

—Emmet Gowin

12 “I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice.”

—Minor White

13 “The weight of words. The shock of photos.”

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14 “The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.”

—André Kertész

15 “I want my photographs to show people what they could never see in ‘real life’. Otherwise, what’s the point?”

—Todd Hanson

(This is still in progress—more will come, but the last two slides will have summaries, like this next one. . . .)

1 “Your photography is a record of your living. . . . 2 “Photography. . . offers the most complete. . . . 3 “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t . . . . 4 “Only with effort can the camera be forced. . . . 5 “Most of my photographs are compassionate. . . . 6 “The camera is a kind of license [to ask. . . . 7 “Photography is the only ‘language’. . . . 8 “Like chess, or writing, [photography] is a. . . . 9 “The particular place simply provided an. . . .10 “I photograph to find out what something. . . . 11 “Photography is a tool for dealing with. . . .12 “I’m always mentally photographing. . . .13 “The weight of words. The shock of. . . . 14 “The camera is my tool. Through it I. . . . 15 “I want my photographs to show people. . . .

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