“If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.”

— Robert Capa

Randy Kennedy, "The Capa Cache" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/arts/design/27kenn.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin, New York Times, Jan. 27, 2008.

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