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the point at which great photographs are made. ...I think great photographs come from that moment in the process of cognition before the mind has analyzed meaning or design and at which the experience and the person experiencing are fully, instinctively, existentially there.

...photographs in which there is a tremendous sense of discovery, rather than analysis of stopped time ... Photography is at its best when it deals with perception - with seeing - and not with recollections in tranquillity or dilettantism of design.

...design is imposed on the photograph as a consideration from another medium. It is a hangover from ... the days when photographers thought of themselves as artists.

...the best use of design in photography flows from the discovery of the inherent design structure in reality ..

...the best photograph is that in which

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form and content are deeply interrelated, where one discovers the meaning through the form and the form through the meaning - the form is inevitable given the subject.

...reality has its own form and ... the super-imposition of form can be misleading.

...if we are open to reality, we in fact perceive its meaning through its form in reality. The job of the photographer is to discover reality's forms and meanings.

...the effort to achieve a personal 'style' in photography depends much more on the repetition of technical gimmickry...

...the print is not the goal of photography but the sharing of perception and ...the sharing of reality.

...the grandmother with her box brownie knows what photography is all about. She wants to take a picture of junior because junior is going to grow up, and we're all going to get old and