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“Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”11”
― The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
― The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind
“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”
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“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. The writer has time to reflect. He can accept and reject, accept again; and before committing his thoughts to paper he is able to tie the several relevant elements together. There is also a period when his brain "forgets," and his subconscious works on classifying his thoughts. But for photographers, what has gone is gone forever.”
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
“For me photography is to place head and heart and eye along the same line of sight. It’s a way of life.”
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“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us.”
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
Chrystyna’s 2025 Year in Books
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