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“The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.”

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Anne Geddes, born on September 13, 1956, is a renowned New Zealand photographer. Her works, primarily focusing on infants and children, have won the admiration of audiences worldwide with their unique perspective and artistic style. more

“While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.”

Action Strong Photography Motive Stirring

Author:Berenice Abbott

“If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.”

Ifs Ideas Cry Photography Photographer Pleasant Devoted Make You Cry

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.”

Feelings Seems Activity Photography Cameras Positively Unnatural Soothing Taking Pictures Disorientation

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.”

Stills Photography Photographer

Author:Garry Winogrand

“The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.”

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Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.”

Subjects Photography Photograph Intimate Portraits

Author:Victor Skrebneski

“Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.”

World Turns Differences Known Objects Photography Photograph Translations

Author:Robert Heinecken

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