| It is not the language of painters but the | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | Weston |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | would be slowed down by painting or |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| be made. - Sam Abell | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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Lincoln |
Minneapolis |
Pittsburgh |
Livonia |
Summerville |
Simi Valley |
Rockville Centre |
Joliet |
Libertyville |
Framingham |
Hart |
Kennett Square |
San Jose |
Muscatine |
New Braunfels |
Pontotoc |
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Sheridan |
Hurricane |
Grand Canyon Natl Park |
Haltom City |
Lolo |
Buffalo |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | communicate more powerfully than either |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Adams | |
| | Photography is about finding out what can |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| more you realize what can be photographed | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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