"I often wished during those years that I could be a lyricist with a camera. [...] I took great delight in [Edward Weston's] and many other photographers’ work. I envied them the freedom to photograph a landscape apparently without concern for the implications of its possession."
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In an interview with Okwui Enwezor, as quoted in "The Camera Is Not a Machine Gun", Fred Ritchin, 1998
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David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer.
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