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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. – Berenice Abbott

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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. – Berenice Abbott

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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott

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The photographic image… is a message without a code. – Roland Barthes

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams

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A photograph is usually looked at — seldom looked into. – Ansel Adams

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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