What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work. "We see his own appetite for life, his mix of urgency with compassion . the artistic thrust of his photography always had more to do with its emotional pitch, which remained genuine and deeply felt." Or, in Capa's own words, a great picture "is a cut out of the whole event which will show more of the real truth of the affair to some one who was not there than the whole scene. . John Steinbeck
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
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Marc Riboud
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Dorothea Lange
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.
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Aleksandar Hemon
Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
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Ansel Adams
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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George Bernard Shaw
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