| ...words and pictures can work together to | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| communicate more powerfully than either | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | would be slowed down by painting or |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | - Sam Abell |
| 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 | |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| You just have to care about what's around you | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | world about you, and trust to your own |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| situation nearly as interesting as | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| Allard | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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