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Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.

Robert Adams

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
Enough
Carry
Lasted
Every
Private
Reminder
Never
Photography
Reminders
Serious
Photographs
Public
Peoples
Community
Pictures
Funny
Photographer
May
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Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.
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There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.
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All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.
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Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all.
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Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
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Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.
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Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.
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