| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Rowell |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| Adams | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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Houston |
Denver |
Washington |
Little Rock |
Trenton |
Roanoke |
Chesapeake |
Clinton Township |
Columbia |
Smithtown |
Rapid City |
Oak Park |
Southern Pines |
Carmel |
Wheat Ridge |
Los Banos |
Hearne |
Borger |
Glen Burnie |
Ishpeming |
Princess Anne |
Clinton |
Santa Monica |
Kanab |
Raymondville |
Provo |
Bluefield |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| - Aaron Siskind | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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