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A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.

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Willy Ronis
Age: 99 †
Born: 1910
Born: August 14
Died: 2009
Died: September 12
Photographer
Photojournalist
University Teacher
9th arrondissement
Paris
Picture
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Emotion
Good
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Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.
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We do not see what is “real,” we see what we are.
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A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart
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I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.
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I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.
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I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.
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I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.
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