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The History of Photography and Photographers, two hundred and eighty characters at a time! 📸

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"I have seized the light – I have arrested its flight!" - Louis Daguerre d. July 10, 1851
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"The objectivity of the camera, used wrongly, is the very devil." - Minor White b. July 9, 1908
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Evacuation of Saigon, 1975 "Grabbed my camera and longest lens left in the office. After shooting 10 frames, I went back to the darkroom to process the film. A 5 inch by 7 inch black and white print with a short caption took 12 minutes to send." - Hubert van Es b. July 6, 1941
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"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, be the testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was." - Philippe Halsman d. June 25, 1979
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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 b. June 12, 1933
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"What we need in photography is more sincerity, more respect for our medium and less respect for its decayed conventions." - Alvin Langdon Coburn b. June 11, 1882
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"Photography can be a mirror and reflect life as it is, but I also think that perhaps it is possible to walk, like Alice, though a looking-glass, and find another kind of world with the camera." - Tony Ray-Jones b. June 7, 1941
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May 27, 1949: An out of work and broke Marilyn Monroe posed nude for photographer Tom Kelley for the famous 'Red Velvet Photo Shoot." “I’ll do it under two conditions. One, your wife has to be present, and two, you actually pay me that 50 dollars.”
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"I was a compulsive shooter back then. I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people." - Dennis Hopper b. May 17, 1936
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Ali Underwater, 1961 "When I called the editor at Sports Illustrated, he thought I was crazy for taking pictures of a boxer in a swimming pool. So I called Life magazine, and they liked the idea..." - Flip Schulke d. May 15, 2008
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"If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up." - Richard Avedon b. May 15, 1923
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Hippolyte Bayard d. May 14, 1887 Said to have invented photography earlier than Daguerre and Fox Talbot but claimed he got screwed up after being persuaded by a friend of Daguerre to postpone the announcement of his findings.
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"War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear." - Horst Faas d. May 10, 2012
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"In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph." - Lotte Jacobi d. May 6, 1990 [Alfred Stieglitz by Lotte Jacobi. New York, 1936]
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"Often my best photographs are the ones I didn’t take." - Mariana Yampolsky d. May 3, 2002 American-born Mexican photographer. One of the most prominent and influential figures in 20th-century Mexican photography.
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Peter Keetman b. April 27, 1916 Influential representative of the "Subjective Photography" movement in Germany during the 1950s.
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"The personality of the photographer, his approach, is really more important than his technical genius." - Lee Miller b. April 23, 1907
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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words." - Ansel Adams d. April 22, 1984
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"I didn’t want to be a “woman photographer.” That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera." - Eve Arnold b. April 21, 1912
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Vivian Maier d. April 21, 2009
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