| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | - Edward Steichen |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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Omaha |
Charlotte |
Hampton |
Anaheim |
Boise |
Missoula |
Rialto |
Camp Hill |
Franklin |
California |
Clifton |
Rocky Mount |
Clinton |
Dexter |
Fall River |
Daphne |
Dixon |
Cocoa Beach |
Mt. Laurel |
Scranton |
Windsor |
Davie |
Seneca |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| It is not the language of painters but the | - Dorothea Lange |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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