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You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts the photographers picture i
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"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it"

- Robert Frank

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This quote by Robert Frank talks with the power of digital photography as an art form. He recommends that the professional photographer's job is transient, and that it will at some point enter into the past. He also suggests that words are more like thoughts, and that photography has a specific romantic appeal that can not be duplicated by words. This recommends that photography has a distinct power to catch minutes in time and also to stimulate feeling in the audience. Frank's quote implies that no matter how the professional photographer selects to turn the photo, it will still have a certain romantic appeal. This talks with the power of digital photography to capture minutes and to evoke feeling in the viewer.

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Switzerland Flag This quote is written / told by Robert Frank somewhere between November 9, 1924 and today. He/she was a famous Photographer from Switzerland. The author also have 6 other quotes.

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