| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| world about you, and trust to your own | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | would be slowed down by painting or |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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Cincinnati |
Tucson |
Omaha |
Sacramento |
Aurora |
Montgomery |
Fullerton |
Lafayette |
Buffalo |
Toms River |
South Plainfield |
Jasper |
Pineville |
Delray Beach |
Marshall |
Beaver Dam |
Rock Falls |
Norfolk |
Cheektowaga |
Vienna |
Cary |
Centerville |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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