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Photography ( or ) is the process and art of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects expose a sensitive silver halide based chemical or electronic medium during a timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or electronically. Photography has many uses for both business and pleasure.... full article at wikipedia

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artwork	artist
My Hand	Val Telberg
Dirt For Sale, Cheap, Dallas, Texas	Lloyd Ullberg
Untitled [LS 10]	Beate G√ºtschow
Steel Mill and Workers' Houses, Birmingham, Alabama	Walker Evans
Untitled #1937, from the series House Hunting	Todd Hido
Dunes, Oceano	Edward Weston
Galleria dell'Accademia 1, Venice	Thomas Struth
Untitled	Ilse Bing
Wales, Ben James	Robert Frank
Greenwater Valley: A Prehistoric Rock Alignment Along Pleistocene Wetlands	Mark Ruwedel
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.	John Berger
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.	Johann Wolfgang Goethe
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.	Susan Sontag
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.	Susan Sontag
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.	Daniel J. Boorstin
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.	John Ruskin
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.	Ludwig Wittgenstein
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.	Susan Sontag
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.	Norman Mailer
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.	George Bernard Shaw
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