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Formalism is a foxhole that too many photographers have burrowed into, perhaps in an effort to demonstrate that their work qualifies as art.

Arthur Lubow

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— this is the core of photography, engaging with life

Paul Graham

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With photography, I can get dirty. I can crawl around, tear my pants, and nobody cares. I can go into the world, participate in life. Curiosity is aptly rewarded.

Donald Weber BJP 2017

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#Afghan hound racing….hilarious.

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Reportage, travel and NGO photography by Danielle Peck

A new website....at least the beginnings of one

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‘I do not believe that these men sit by the sea all day and all night so as not to miss the flounder rise or the cod come in to shallower waters, as they claim. They just want to be in a place where they have the world behind them, and before them nothing but emptiness.’

W.G. Sebald describes the sea anglers along the shore near Lowestoft.

The Rings of Saturn

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In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art

Sol Wit ‘Paragraphs on Conceptual Art’

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If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture.

Eddie Adams

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I photograph Margate to see what Margate looks like photographed

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Fred Ritchin: "What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making subjects play their assigned roles (the poor as passive victims, celebrities as glamorous) are hardly adequate responses. In fact, these might be reasons to ask for the help of amateurs who do not know how to stylize their imagery and are not interested in making a publication seem more palatable to its potential consumers. There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers." Given today's budgets for journalism, my guess is that quite a few photographers will be fired in the near future. But I certainly hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well—we urgently need their perspectives.

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Peter Fraser part deux

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Peter Fraser exercise

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Memorial bench

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Memorial benches

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Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

Sontag: On Photography. Pretty much sums up why I took the break

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In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.

Sontag: On Photography

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An international same-sex ballroom championship held at the Rivoli Ballroom, south London