| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Sam Abell | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | more you realize what can be photographed |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Weston | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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Brooklyn |
St. Louis |
Memphis |
Greenville |
North Hollywood |
Blackfoot |
Thomson |
Homestead |
Brockton |
Bentonville |
Basking Ridge |
Fort Scott |
Charlottesville |
Waxahachie |
Elko |
Elk City |
Milaca |
Scott |
Dodgeville |
Deer Park |
Troy |
Denham Springs |
Monticello |
Scottsburg |
Falling Waters |
Syracuse |
Denver |
Buena |
Attalla |
Markle |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | - Edward Steichen |
| Lange | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | communicate more powerfully than either |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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