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#1418 - Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Para el sol, Mexico, 1973
“I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance…. I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes. Instinct is the same as inspiration and eventually it comes”
~ Manuel Álvarez Bravo
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#1319 - Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Fruta Prohibida, 1976/printed c. 1980
“I work for the pleasure of the work and everything else is a matter for the critics. I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death. When one takes a photograph one doesn’t think about saying anything in particular”
~ Manuel Alvarez Bravo
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#1186 - Mariana Yampolsky
Head Covering Huipil, Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, 1962
“When you take a photograph, you are selecting an instant of life. It is like a personal discovery that I want to show everybody else, not as an achievement of mine but as something I want to share because I feel it is important”
~ Mariana Yampolsky
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