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You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

Rondal Partridge

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Rondal Partridge
Age: 97 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 4
Died: 2015
Died: June 19
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Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent my life stepping back to include the garbage in my photographic view.
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I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.
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