“Photographers do not cure like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, offer support like a priest, amuse like a raconteur or intoxicate like a singer, they simply look. That is enough—no, that is all. For a photographer, to look is everything. That is why photographers must continue to look things through and through. Photographers should gaze at their subjects head on, their whole form becoming an eye as they face the world. To stake their everything on looking, that is to be a photographer”
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Shomatsu Tomei
The Pencil of the Sun, Mainichi Shimbun, 1975
via: To look is everything: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Masahisa Fukase and Shomei Tomatsu
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