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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn’t normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression , communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation , execution.

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer , the viewer.

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

The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, , the print the performance.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.

To photograph truthfully , effectively is to see beneath the surfaces , record the qualities of nature , humanity which live or are latent in all things.