Quotes by David Douglas Duncan - Page 1

Photographer's advice: Stand in the right place.
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Advice
Photographer
Right Place
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I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.
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Social Order
Impose
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I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'
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Correspondent
War Correspondent
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I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.
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Fees
Lenders
Shopping
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Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere.
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Japan
Laughter
Hears
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So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.
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People Way Doing
Estate
Exploiting
Picasso
So Many People
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My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.
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Photographed
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After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.
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Marines
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Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.
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Running
Guy
People
Photograph
Photographs
Fast
Sing
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It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.
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Fun
Simple
Typewriters
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Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really.
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Buffalo
Johnson
Vietnam
Chi
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
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There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.
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Finals
Said
Way
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Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.
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Cost
Simple
Simple Life
Strange
Train
Traveled
Gandhi
Himself
Manner
Provide
Simplistic
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Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends.
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Audacity
Missouri
Studios
Photographs
Picasso
Thousands
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The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.
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Allies
Artillery
Fighting
Friendly
Trusted
Vietnam
Feared
Marines
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I have taken some hits here and there, but I've been most damaged carrying my little terrier to bed, and I broke my hip turning off the lamp. I've been nicked a few times, but he put me out of business. So life is a very strange adventure.
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Adventure
Bed
Broke
Strange
Taken
Life Business Me
Turning
Carrying
Damaged
Hip
Hits
Lamp
Life Is A
Terrier
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With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.
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Far Away
Germany
Japan
Almost Nothing
Conquered
Converted
Ideally
Peek
Safer
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War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.
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Crash
Photograph
Subjects
Earthquake
Hurricane
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My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman, the Marine, or the pilot. I wanted to give the reader something of the visual perspective and feeling of the guy under fire, his apprehensions and sufferings, his tensions and releases, his behavior in the presence of threatening death.
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Eye
Fire
Marine
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I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.
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War
Photography
Simple
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