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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. repr. In Bernard Shaw on Photography (1989). "Some Criticisms of the Exhibitions," Amateur Photographer (London, October 16, 1902).

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