Quote by John Berger
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an

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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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal – John Berger

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. – Ansel Adams

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. – Ansel Adams

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

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In my minds eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. – Ansel Adams

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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. – John W. Gardner

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People dont have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. Its a dreadfully unjust world. – Louisa May Alcott

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

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My experiences have taught me a lot and Im happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. – Ally Sheedy

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