| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| more you realize what can be photographed | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
|
|
Brooklyn |
Miami |
Virginia Beach |
Jacksonville |
Huntington Beach |
Glendora |
Carson City |
Gary |
Monroe |
Homosassa |
Foley |
Allentown |
Coral Springs |
Statesboro |
Alhambra |
Raleigh |
West Orange |
Portland |
Koloa |
Roseburg |
Butler |
Camden |
Los Altos |
Grove City |
Ketchum |
Hobart |
Milford |
|
|
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| be made. - Sam Abell | Rowell |
| | |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | One should really use the camera as though |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | - Dorothea Lange |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
|