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“If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.”

Quote by Andre Kertesz

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Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz was a Hungarian-American photographer renowned for his unique photographic style and contributions to the art of photography. His work spans a wide range of genres from street photography to artistic photography, profoundly influencing the development of 20th-century photography. more

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