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Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic.

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Freeman Patterson

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

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There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

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A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

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A photographer who wants to see. . . . must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between yourself and your home. If you do not see what is all around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?. . . . Good seeing doesn't ensure good photographs, but good photographic expression is impossible without it.

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