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[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)
Pierre Mac Orlan / Novelist
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[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)
⇛ Pierre Mac Orlan (Novelist)

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Pierre Mac Orlan Novelist

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.

Pierre Mac Orlan Novelist

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Pierre Mac Orlan Novelist

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