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“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
Irving Penn.
Noted in Popular Photography, February 1956.
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“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson.
1952. The Decisive Moment. 2014 Ed. Göttingen: Steidl.
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“A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph per se. It is a photograph which carries the full meaning of the episode.”
Dorothea Lange.
1960-61, published 1968. Interview with Suzanne Riess. The Making of a Documentary Photographer. University of California Bancroft Library.
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“A photographer … gets right inside the story, gets accepted as part of it, stands in the right place at the right time, and presses the shutter.”
Bill Hurn.
Jay, Bill & Hurn, David. 1996. On Being a Photographer.
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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
Ansel Adams.