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Your Quotes for 20 February 2006 - Photography

Ansel Easton Adams was born at San Francisco on this day in 1902. I don't think any another photographer has brought us as many images in such incredible focus and marvelous perspective. It's not just pointing a camera and blasting away, although I've been known to get lucky that way.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created.
     - Edward Steichen, 1879 - 1973

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
     - Tony Benn

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer, it is my task to reveal it if I can.
     - Yousuf Karsh, 1908 - 2002

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
     - Ansel Adams, 1902 - 1984

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
     - Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908 - 2004

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
     - Edward Weston, 1886 - 1958

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