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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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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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Does not the very word creative mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death. – Berenice Abbott

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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. – Ansel Adams

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. – Diane Arbus

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