LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
William Zinsser • 1 highlight
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“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
One is cautioned by the better critics never to write about photographs. They are an easy substitute for prose, a hackneyed shortcut, and, besides, they lie like all images do.
Gary Shteyngart • Little Failure: A Memoir
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“It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.” - Helen Levitt