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"Genuinely captivated learning about invasive fish species and the reversal of the Chicago River and its far-reaching impacts.
“It was a lot easier to imagine changing the river once again — with electricity and bubbles and noise and anything else anyone could dream up — than changing the lives of the people around it.”" — Jun 27, 2025 01:09PM
"Genuinely captivated learning about invasive fish species and the reversal of the Chicago River and its far-reaching impacts.
“It was a lot easier to imagine changing the river once again — with electricity and bubbles and noise and anything else anyone could dream up — than changing the lives of the people around it.”" — Jun 27, 2025 01:09PM
“We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it, and we ship it out in cans.”
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“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.”
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
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“Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ”
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“To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.”
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.”
― The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
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