Minor White

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

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These are some quotes by American author Minor White Photographer, who lived between July 9, 1908 and June 24, 1976.

Quotes by Minor White

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

Minor White

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$A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.$

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Minor White

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