". . . Always try to understand the symbolic content of the photograph, or the meaning that the subject matter may have for the photographer.
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How unfortunate it is that we don't respond with wonder every day to the magnificence of the English ivy. How sad that we don't see the light spilling across the little rug every evening. These sights are dismissed from mind and eye because they are so familiar, and their value as things-in-themselves goes unappreciated.
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A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between yourself and your home. If you do not see what is all around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers? . . . [U]nless you can get to the essence of the subject matter through keen observation, and express it through your photographs, it doesn't matter . . . ."
pp. 11-12
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