| I almost never set out to photograph a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| Rowell | Lange |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | It is not the language of painters but the |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| would be slowed down by painting or | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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New York |
Chicago |
San Antonio |
Jackson |
Flint |
Hickory |
North Little Rock |
Quincy |
Napa |
Burlington |
San Bruno |
Flagstaff |
Georgetown |
Gaylord |
Sausalito |
Germantown |
Maumee |
Petoskey |
Placerville |
Colorado Springs |
Beatrice |
Pampa |
White Bear Lake |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | communicate more powerfully than either |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | those that you are going to make. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | That's life! - John Sexton |
| 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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