It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.
The camera is the slave to the actor.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
You adapt to who you're photographing.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.