Camera & Imaging Products Association (有限責任中間法人カメラ映像機器工業会, Yūgen-sekinin-chūkan-hōjin Kamera Eizō-kiki Kōgyōkai?, CIPA), is a Japan-based organization set up in July 2002 to deal with technologies related to photography. Its members are engaged with the production of film-based and digital cameras, and other related equipment.
This organization succeeds the Japan Camera Industry Association (JCIA).
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“If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, “I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life.” I mean people are going to say, “You’re crazy.” Plus they’re going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that’s a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.”
—Diane Arbus (1923–1971)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)