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“Think about it. If you've got an SLR or a large-format camera in your hand, you inevitably want to take considered shots. You think about the composition, and so on. With a compact camera, you just point and shoot.”
Takeshi Nakamoto, Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
“As everyone knows, flush toilets are made of pure white porcelain and have handles of sparkling metal. Were I able to have things my own way, I would very much prefer fixtures - both men's and women's - made of wood. Wood finished in glistening black lacquer is the very best; but even unfinished wood, as it darkens and the grain grows more subtle with the years, acquires an inexplicable power to calm and soothe.”
tanizaki junichiro

“quality only comes with quantity.”
Takeshi Nakamoto

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
“A beautiful woman, no matter how lovely her skin, would be considered indecent were she to show her bare buttocks or feet in the presence of others; and how very crude and tasteless to expose the toilet to such excessive illumination. The cleanliness of what can be seen only calls up the more clearly thoughts of what cannot be seen. In such places the distinction between the clean and the unclean is best left obscure, shrouded in a dusky haze.”
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
“I wonder if my readers know the colour of that "darkness seen by candlelight." It was different in quality from darkness on the road at night. It was a repletion, a pregnancy of tiny particles like fine ashes, each particle luminous as a rainbow.”
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