Photography makes one ...

Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
 Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
 Alvin Langdon Coburn