| Photography is a major force in explaining | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Photography is about finding out what can | Weston |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| - Edward Steichen | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | Adams |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| 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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