| I think you have to have a real point of view | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | be made. - Sam Abell |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | Lange |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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Los Angeles |
Houston |
Miami |
Indianapolis |
Saginaw |
Turlock |
St. Paul |
Las Cruces |
Columbus |
Rogers |
Gaithersburg |
Bartlett |
Placerville |
Waynesboro |
Newport News |
Kingsland |
Yonkers |
Silverdale |
North Richland Hills |
Ladson |
Bad Axe |
Fairfield |
Quincy |
Lawrence |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Rowell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | One should really use the camera as though |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | - Dorothea Lange |
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