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Students were taught by doing.
Minor White / Photographer
Photography
Students
Taught
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All photographs are self-portraits.
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Photographer
Portraits
Self
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Photography is a language more universal than words.
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Language
Photographer
Photography
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I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
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Photographer
Photography
Practice
Mentally
Photographing
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Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
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Cameras
Photograph
Photography
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When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
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Cameras
Photographer
Photography
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At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
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Firsts
Photographer
Photography
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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
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Attention
Photographer
Photography
Yourself
Yourself Your Attention
Still
Object
Presence
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One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
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Photograph
Photographer
Should
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One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
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Doe
Photograph
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To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.
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Eye
Mind
Sides
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The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
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Goal
Photography
Responsibility
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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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Chosen
Film
Long
Matter
Photographer
Photography
Spirit
Slow
Stands
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Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
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Creative
Inspiration
Photography
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In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.
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Analysis
Order
Together
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The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.
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Artist
Discovery
Mean
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We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.
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Dark
Photography
Rooms
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Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.
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Moving
Sometimes
Way
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If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.
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Cameras
Giving
Self Worth
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The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.
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Order
Photographer
Photography
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When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.
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Fool
Mirrors
Self
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Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.
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Dream
Space
Eye
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When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.
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Cameras
Looks
Saws
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If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.
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Running
Mean
Photography
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Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.
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Brooms
Photographer
Portraits
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We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.
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Photography
Students
Way
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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
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Travel
Heart
Horizon
Late
Only Time
Photography
Slips
Sun
Too Late
Time Enough Moment
Arrive
Camera
Time Moment Enough
Expose
Hearts
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A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
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Exposure
Film
Mind
Photographer
Receptive
Sensitive
Fraction
Unlike
Seemingly
Sheet
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Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.
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Essentials
Pairs
Photographer
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When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.
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Attention
Essence
Firsts
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There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.
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Class
Photography
Thinking
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It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.
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Groups
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Want
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I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.
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Looks
Photographer
Tunes
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...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.
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Children
Eye
Mean
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Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.
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Intuition
Mind
Trying
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While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.
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Photographer
Play
Roles
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Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.
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Grandchildren
Photography
Wish
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...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.
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Men
Mirrors
Vision
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The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.
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Art
Creativity
Photography
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Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.
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Photography
Responsibility
Skills
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The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .
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Creating
Fall
Mind
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