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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

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...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

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PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

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An image is better than one thousand words

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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