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Camera or Photographer? Why “or?”

Posted on 30 May 2009

Seen at Paul Butzi’s Musings of Photography blog, a link to something Mike Johnson wrote:

“Cameras don’t take pictures, true; but then, people don’t take pictures either. People with cameras take pictures.”

Yes, a concise and direct response to the unending and pointless debates between those who want to believe that it is either all about the camera or not about the camera at all. Thank you for that!

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