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PHOTOGRAPHY: The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. (Ansel Adams, U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the western U.S., 1902-1984)

PHOTOGRAPHY: Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY: The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY: Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY: Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. (Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish -American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, 1879-1973)

PHOTOGRAPHY: Every photographer is a painter trying to get out. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)