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“Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.”

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Author:John Sexton

“Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.”

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Author:Laurel Nakadate

“In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.”

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Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.”

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Author:Michael Kenna

“I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.”

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Book:Camera in London

Source: Camera in London

“I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.”

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.”

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Book:Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays