| I almost never set out to photograph a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Rowell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | |
| has to transform the photographer into an | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | communicate more powerfully than either |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | alone. -William Albert Allard |
|
|
Los Angeles |
New York |
Boston |
Glendale |
South Bend |
Searcy |
Springfield |
Midwest City |
Somerville |
Harrisburg |
Staten Island |
Merced |
Blacksburg |
Victorville |
Malone |
Loganville |
South Charleston |
Pittsburg |
Oxford |
Suffern |
St. Paul |
Madison |
|
|
| It is not the language of painters but the | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Adams |
|