The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.
- David Burnett
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You are in a perfectly bad mood until you can look through your viewfinder and see that meaningful moment.
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The eye and the brain react to the foreign, so when you are shooting in the same place for a long time, you really have to push yourself beyond autopilot...
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The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
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I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.
- David Burnett
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War isn’t a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.
- David Burnett
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When you’ve lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there’s no point in being nostalgic.
- David Burnett
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I don't do a lot of sports coverage in between the Olympics. For me, it's more than a sports event. I'm always trying to make some bigger contextual view of it.
- David Burnett
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