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⇑Photography at SWPS Wrocław

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: arts

University website: english.swps.pl

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Photography

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

Edward Weston as cited in: Harold Evans, Edwin Taylor (1978) Pictures on a page: photojournalism and picture editing. p. 75

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You put your camera around your neck in the morning, along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange, as quoted in Dorothea Lange : A Photographer's Life (1978), p. vii

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Ansel Adams as cited in: Elizabeth T. Schoch (2002) The everything digital photography book. p. 105

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