| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | world about you, and trust to your own |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| more you realize what can be photographed | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | 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 |
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Houston |
Pittsburgh |
Longview |
Delray Beach |
Torrance |
Lorain |
Palestine |
Sugar Land |
Quincy |
Coral Springs |
Moultrie |
Vineland |
Manchester |
Platte City |
Castleton On Hudson |
Galveston |
Rocklin |
Seagoville |
Selma |
Sikeston |
Ocean City |
Chowchilla |
Clayton |
Tarzana |
Pleasantville |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| has to transform the photographer into an | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| Weston | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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