"The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment."

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Source : Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

Andreas Feininger

#Disappointment Quotes #Eye Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.”
“I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.”
“In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.”
“What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.”
“It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.”
“I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.”
“Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.”
“I like playing smart, savvy, sexy women -- because it's so not me!”

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