| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | Stieglitz |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| Allard | 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 | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| communicate more powerfully than either | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | - Sam Abell |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| edges around some facts, you change those | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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