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Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
The things you don’t show can say more than the things that are made visible.
There's nothing more extraordinary than reality.
The camera captures light, our minds capture images.
Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let colour destroy this image.
Photographers should neither be seen nor heard.
At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.
To be able to see in concrete terms what was created in a fraction of a second is a rare luxury. Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode – from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage – the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.
[cited in: Creative Camera December 1972, p. 401]
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
I find it particularly exciting when a picture evokes anything near that word, 'mystery'.
THE PASSING OF THE REVISIONS TO THE COPYRIGHT ACT IN THE USA, HAD DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR BILL STETTNER AND HIS CO-CAMPAIGNERS.
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