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Everybody knows that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It’s completely subjective, which makes any endeavor to create so-called ‘pretty’ pictures, whether or not to please a public, a ridiculous undertaking. Smarten up and take the following advice of American photographer Morley Baer (1916-1995) to heart: “Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary object so you can transform it by photographing it.”
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“He who seeks beauty shall find it.” Bill Cunningham (1929), American photographer “If you look at a photograph, and you think, ‘My, isn’t that a beautiful photograph,’ and you go on to the next one, or ‘Isn’t that nice light?’ so what? I mean what does it do to you or what’s the real value in the long run? What do you walk away from it with? I mean, I’d much rather show you a photograph that makes demands on you, that you might become involved in on your own terms or be perplexed by.” Duane Michals (1932), American photographer
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