| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | edges around some facts, you change those |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| Weston | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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