“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.”
"It Has to Walk Alone," Infinity magazine, 1951.
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Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 79
“It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
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Source: Between the World and Me (2015), p. 8.
Source: The System of the Stars (1890), p. 33.
American Photo (January/February 2000), p. 90
Context: Growing up, I was surrounded by Nazi imagery, like everybody in Germany, and for a boy obsessed with photography it left an indelible impression on me. Later this influence was tempered by Brassaï and Dr. Erich Salomon. My love of photography at night started with m early experience of … the Brelin undergrund stations. Even today I love photographing by the light of street lamps or in the glare of my flash.
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”