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Louis Stettner

“I have never been interested in photographs based solely on aesthetics, divorced from reality. I also doubt very much whether this is possible.”

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Lee Friedlander

"Photography is like fishing. You go out, and sometimes you catch something."

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Walker Evans

“Good photography is unpretentious.”

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Stephen Shore

“The artist’s task is to find the right point of view, the right angle, to create something that didn’t exist before.”

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William Eggleston

“I am at war with the obvious.”

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Josef Koudelka

“I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.”

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Abbas Attar

“My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation.”

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Thomas Hoepker

“A photo can be more than just a picture. It can be a piece of history.”

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James VanDerZee

“I wanted to see what I could do, just for the sheer fun of it.”

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Ave Pildas

"I'm happiest when I'm away from my studio, away from my house, and out with my camera.”

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Todd Hido

“I shoot like a documentarian, but I print like a painter.”

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Bruce Davidson

"I'm a humanist; I see the little things that we all share together."

Martin Kaninsky 9/22/23 Martin Kaninsky 9/22/23

Anders Petersen

"To be close to life, you have to be close to yourself."

Martin Kaninsky 5/10/23 Martin Kaninsky 5/10/23

Alec Soth

"I believe in the basic notion that the world is infinitely interesting."

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Edward S. Curtis

"The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other."

Martin Kaninsky 5/1/23 Martin Kaninsky 5/1/23

David Douglas Duncan

"The pictures are there, and you just take them."

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Christopher Anderson

"The camera is just a tool; the real magic happens when the photographer can find the humanity in their subjects."

Martin Kaninsky 4/29/23 Martin Kaninsky 4/29/23

Robert Frank

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”

Martin Kaninsky 4/29/23 Martin Kaninsky 4/29/23

William Eugene Smith

“The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect.”

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Gordon Parks

"I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty."

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