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“What it is that makes a photograph truly work is in the end a mystery, as success doubtless is in any art. Finely hewn critical standards may help us explain the admirable, but between the admirable and the wonderful is a gulf that we can see across, but not chart.”

John Szarkowski, former Curator of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, from Looking at Photographs, 1973, MOMA

“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”

Minor White

“You can’t depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.”

Mark Twain

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

Richard Avedon