| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| - Aaron Siskind | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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New York |
Atlanta |
Richmond |
Reno |
Asheville |
Tupelo |
Baltimore |
Enid |
The Woodlands |
San Pedro |
Wilmington |
Georgetown |
Eastland |
Bunkie |
Natick |
Hershey |
Flint |
Emporia |
Leavenworth |
Warren |
Elizabeth |
Marion |
Childress |
Beaver |
Alexandria |
Berwyn |
Longboat |
Scottsburg |
Sebastopol |
Salina |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| communicate more powerfully than either | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| | Weston |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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