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Sam Haskins

“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing ‘Chopsticks’ on a concert grand piano.”

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Documentary photography, Magnum Photographer, Portrait photography, Fine art photography Martin Kaninsky 5/10/23 Documentary photography, Magnum Photographer, Portrait photography, Fine art photography Martin Kaninsky 5/10/23

Alec Soth

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

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Arnold Newman

"We don't take pictures with our cameras. We take them with our hearts and we take them with our minds."

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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."

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Philippe Halsman

"If you want to see what someone is truly like, ask them to jump."

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Travel photography, Leica, Street Photography, Portrait photography, Magnum Photographer Martin Kaninsky 4/10/23 Travel photography, Leica, Street Photography, Portrait photography, Magnum Photographer Martin Kaninsky 4/10/23

Steve McCurry

"If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view."

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Portrait photography, Documentary photography, Street Photography, Rolleiflex Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23 Portrait photography, Documentary photography, Street Photography, Rolleiflex Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23

Diane Arbus

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."

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Portrait photography, Calumet, Linhof Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23 Portrait photography, Calumet, Linhof Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23

Yousuf Karsh

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."

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Irving Penn

"Photographing a cake can be art."

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Portrait photography, Mamiya, Nikon, Canon, Hasselblad Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23 Portrait photography, Mamiya, Nikon, Canon, Hasselblad Martin Kaninsky 4/8/23

Annie Leibovitz

“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."

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Richard Avedon

"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."

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