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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
-Walker Evans
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It's Easy To Photograph Light Reflecting From

Walker Evans
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
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