Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably must not be so; it occurs in the field of the photographed thing like a supplement that is at once inevitable and delightful; it does not necessarily attest to the photographer's art; it says only that the photographer was there, or else, still more simply, that he could not (i)not(i) photograph the partial object at the same time as the total object (how could Ker̩sz have 'separated' the dirt road from the violinist walking on it?). The Photographer's 'second sight' does not consist in 'seeing' but in being there. And above all, imitating Orpheus, he must not turn back to look at what he is leading Рwhat hi is giving to me! . Roland Barthes
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  1. Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. - Marc Riboud
  2. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. - Dorothea Lange
  3. When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. - Aleksandar Hemon
  4. Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. - Ansel Adams
  5. A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. - George Bernard Shaw
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