The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
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It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.
To photograph is to confer importance.
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Photography must be integrated with the story.
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