A Quote by Rene Burri
What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
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However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
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