| I think you have to have a real point of view | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Weston |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | has to transform the photographer into an |
| edges around some facts, you change those | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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Brooklyn |
Jersey City |
Longview |
St. Paul |
Quincy |
Staten Island |
Vero Beach |
Jonesboro |
Campbell |
Encinitas |
Starkville |
Wallingford |
Modesto |
St. James |
Hopkinsville |
Los Alamitos |
El Dorado |
Newry |
Hamburg |
Hamilton |
Gallatin |
Taylor |
Southport |
Natural Bridge |
Ellsworth |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | be made. - Sam Abell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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