| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Weston | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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Atlanta |
Chicago |
St. Louis |
Tyler |
Norfolk |
Des Moines |
Dearborn |
Clarksville |
Tucson |
Pearl River |
Moses Lake |
Irving |
Marlborough |
Dandridge |
Middletown |
St. Paul |
Panama City Beach |
Clare |
Clayton |
Sturgeon Bay |
Lahaina |
Eastland |
Aberdeen |
Amsterdam |
Nederland |
Faribault |
Islandia |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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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