What have I done wrong?" -he said later." Nothing, I think. I am steadily surprised that there are so many photographers that reject manipulating reality, as if that was wrong. Change reality! If you don't find it, invent it!
- Pete Turner
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Ultimately, simplicity is the goal - in every art, and achieving simplicity is one of the hardest things to do. Yet it's easily the most essential.
- Pete Turner, More Joy of Photography by Eastman Kodak (Editor)
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A photographers work is given shape and style by his personal vision. It is not simply technique, but the way he looks at life and the world around him.
- Pete Turner, More Joy of Photography by Eastman Kodak (Editor)
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Looking at photographs, like taking them, can be joyful, sensuous pleasure. Looking at photographs of quality can only increase that pleasure.
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If photography has developed a special language it should be welcomed as an extension of our senses and seen for what it is – the first faulting steps of an infant medium towards maturity.
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It has been said a thousand times that photography is a universal language. To accept this notion is to ignore the fact that its meanings cannot be translated in anything other than a woolly and unprecise manner.
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