| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| - Sam Abell | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | Lange |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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Houston |
Miami |
Sacramento |
Tucson |
Alexandria |
Turlock |
Lake Charles |
Norwalk |
Mansfield |
Seattle |
Thomasville |
Battle Creek |
Concord |
Muskegon |
Bothell |
Panama City Beach |
Scottsboro |
Winchester |
Braintree |
Winder |
Pocatello |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | You just have to care about what's around you |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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