| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | It is not the language of painters but the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| Weston | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| Rowell | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
|
|
Chicago |
Boston |
Raleigh |
Sacramento |
Aurora |
Clearwater |
El Cajon |
Georgetown |
Jefferson City |
St. Paul |
Eagle Pass |
Santa Barbara |
Tempe |
Truth Or Consequences |
Levittown |
Antigo |
Buena Vista |
Cordova |
Oakdale |
Vernon |
Mansfield |
Edinburgh |
Pine Grove |
Brooks |
Hazlet |
Johnstown |
Petoskey |
Edgartown |
|
|
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography is about finding out what can |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | 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 |
|