| One should really use the camera as though | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| - Dorothea Lange | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| - Sam Abell | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| Weston | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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New York |
Houston |
Bronx |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
St. Paul |
Dearborn |
Corning |
Hershey |
Lowell |
Springfield |
Opelika |
Palm Beach Gardens |
Franklin |
New Rochelle |
Yardley |
Boynton Beach |
Snowshoe |
Iron Mountain |
Williams |
Falls Church |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| It is not the language of painters but the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | more you realize what can be photographed |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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