| One should really use the camera as though | It is not the language of painters but the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| - Dorothea Lange | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Rowell | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
|
|
Los Angeles |
Kansas City |
Pensacola |
Baltimore |
Canton |
Ocala |
Duluth |
Meridian |
Yakima |
Benton |
Lubbock |
Marietta |
Springfield |
West Plains |
Decatur |
Sonora |
Versailles |
Joelton |
Barnwell |
Franklin |
Malvern |
Starkville |
Johnstown |
Cedartown |
Blacksburg |
Fairhope |
Cornelius |
|
|
| ...words and pictures can work together to | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| communicate more powerfully than either | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Allard |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | |
| | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
|