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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated, far more difficult to sacrifice skill and cease exertion in the proper place, than to expend both indiscriminately.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

- John Ruskin : the Modern Painters

Photography is the technique, by means of which, an exact image of an object can be recorded. The Greek word 'Photo' means light and 'Graph' means sketch; So, as such, photography is a scientific process of obtaining a sketch by light. The other methods of obtaining pictures are the oil paintings, water colour drawings and pencil sketches etc. Therefore, photography is the method of making pictures by the agency of light.

In today's society, literally soaked with commercial films, television programmes and colour suppliments with so much apparent relish and ease, 'the man with a camera' is most able to make an effective stand against the potential, comparative and real debasement of visual imagery that surrounds most of our lives. The man with a camera can help us to see - and most of us say everyday; "See what I mean?"

The photographer has had from the outset a special role and a certain image, but since the sociocultural explosion, started in the fifties and also during the late nineties (with the change of the millennium, to be specific), both role and image have become singularly fascinating, glamourous and very often prestigious. There is no doubt that the photographer is a man of today, with an eye on tomorrow.

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