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Lee Friedlander Quotes: The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.
         

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.


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If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.



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