shutter quotes

The most important thing about photographing people isnot clicking the shutter†it is clicking with the subject.

-Eisenstaedt, Alfred
  Witness to Our Time.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking† Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

-Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw
  'A Berlin Diary', in Goodbye to Berlin (1939).

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