| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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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 |
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Wichita |
Augusta |
Lubbock |
Westminster |
Fort Wayne |
Stratford |
Greenwood |
Ellisville |
Trinidad |
Rayne |
Fort Mitchell |
Klamath Falls |
Sunrise |
Covington |
South San Francisco |
Langhorne |
Jasper |
Coeur D |
South Jacksonville |
Paradise |
Kirkland |
Greenville |
Sonora |
Petoskey |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| It is not the language of painters but the | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | would be slowed down by painting or |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | - Sam Abell |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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