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“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.”

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Author:Jack Kerouac

“[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).”

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Author:Walead Beshty

“In photography, the issue of the integration of form and content is exceptionally difficult because of the widely held belief that photographs must be a kind of vicarious experience of the subject itself.”

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Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.”

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Author:Taryn Simon

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”

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Author:Ansel Adams

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”

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Author:Aaron Siskind

“The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.”

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Book:The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

Source: The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

“I totally disagree with the belief that nature was only made for the use of people. Human beings are not the center of the universe, and, if they are to sustain themselves, it is vitally important for them to be awakened to how closely they are linked with the rest of nature.”

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Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning