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The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.

— Roman Vishniac

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You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.

Concentration camp money... It was a German sadism that invented it. Can you do anything with it? Yes, you can cry.

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