"Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged."

Source : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

Joel Sternfeld

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“It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.”
“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.97, Macmillan
“The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.”
“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
“We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.”
“There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn’t quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year’s episodes and Sunday night’s conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.”

Source : " TV ‘Breaking Bad’ finale: What happened to Walt — and to us" by Hank Stuever, www.washingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.
“All that I seek is already within me.”
“Few questions make long friends in the hills.”

Source : Marah Ellis Ryan (1891). “Told in the Hills”, p.264, Library of Alexandria

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