| I almost never set out to photograph a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Rowell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| - Sam Abell | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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Chicago |
Glendale |
Tallahassee |
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Hollywood |
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Carthage |
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Albany |
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Linthicum |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| be made. - Sam Abell | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Adams |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | more you realize what can be photographed |
| - Ansel Adams | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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