| I almost never set out to photograph a | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | You just have to care about what's around you |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| communicate more powerfully than either | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| Photography is about finding out what can | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| edges around some facts, you change those | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | - Aaron Siskind |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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