| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | situation nearly as interesting as |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | Allard |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
| | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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Chicago |
Vero Beach |
Omaha |
Brooklyn |
Waco |
Glendale |
Bellingham |
Eugene |
Zanesville |
Jackson |
Yorba Linda |
Monroeville |
Novato |
Rocky Hill |
Del Mar |
Pittsburgh |
Madison |
Cumberland |
Coldwater |
Punta Gorda |
Des Moines |
Gainesville |
Downey |
The Woodlands |
Medford |
Ozona |
Blair |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | - Edward Steichen |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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