| Memory is very important, the memory of | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | has to transform the photographer into an |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| Photography is about finding out what can | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| edges around some facts, you change those | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | Rowell |
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New York |
Nashville |
Providence |
South Bend |
Chesapeake |
Houma |
Decatur |
Syracuse |
Panama City |
Yuma |
Lima |
Orange |
Corbin |
Long Beach |
Forest |
Virginia Beach |
Hartford |
Laredo |
Rogers |
Lewiston |
Poland |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| Adams | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | world about you, and trust to your own |
| more you realize what can be photographed | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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