| It is not the language of painters but the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | Adams |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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Durham |
Rockford |
Billings |
Cape Coral |
Garner |
Lake Worth |
Meadville |
Fairfield |
Idabel |
Dublin |
Weston |
Hope |
Essex Junction |
Willmar |
Mukwonago |
East Liverpool |
Branson |
Wildwood |
Charlevoix |
Madras |
Allen Park |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Weston | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| would be slowed down by painting or | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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