| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | One should really use the camera as though |
| world about you, and trust to your own | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Dorothea Lange |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| - Ansel Adams | Weston |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| - Aaron Siskind | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| edges around some facts, you change those | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| 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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