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“I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.”

Looks Littles Reality Process Bears Photography Photograph Splits Continuing Frozen Sincerely Copying Pitfalls Living Reality

Author:Keith Shackleton

“Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in the long run, it is important; in order to endure our age of apocalypse, we have to be reconciled not only to avalanche and hurricane, but to ourselves.”

Long Important Sometimes Hard Running Age Order Mistake Bears Photography Endure Acknowledge Long Runs Apocalypse Hurricanes Avalanches

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.”

World Kind I Can War Reason Wanted Found Moral Grace Adventure Bears Photography Twenties Chaos Witness Changing The World Bullets Weaving Good Moral

Author:Luc Delahaye

“There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.”

Ifs World Facts Reality Courses Possibility Bears Photography Manage Exclusion Chunks Uncontrollable Framing

Author:Philip-Lorca diCorcia

“Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.”

Bears Photography Representation

Author:Martha Rosler

“Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.”

Silence Audience Records Effects Bears Speech Photography Printed Electrical

Author:Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

“One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.”

“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Choices Given Decision Results Situation Events Objects Particular Bears Photography Photographer Photograph Witness Meaningless

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger