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“Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.”

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Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.”

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Author:Alexey Brodovitch

“When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.”

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Author:Jamie Wyeth

“The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.”

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Author:Bryan Adams

“One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.”

“[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.”

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Book:Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography

Source: Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography

“I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.”

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Author:Christian Metz

“... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.”

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Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”

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Book:Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places

Source: Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”