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I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

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Marc Riboud
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: June 24
Died: 2016
Died: August 30
French Resistance Fighter
Photographer
Photojournalist
Reporter
War Photographer
Genis-le-Patriote
Maruku Ribū
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Encounters
Surprise
Asked
Often
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Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
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The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.
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The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world.
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For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.
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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
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Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.
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