| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Rowell | 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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New York |
Atlanta |
Long Beach |
Modesto |
Livonia |
Tuscaloosa |
Lufkin |
Palm Bay |
Chesapeake |
Kansas City |
Lincolnton |
Plantation |
Grand Rapids |
Florence |
Neenah |
Corbin |
Dunmore |
North Little Rock |
Lancaster |
Woodland |
Shelby |
Holdredge |
Solana Beach |
Remington |
Bonner S Ferry |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| be made. - Sam Abell | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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