| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | be made. - Sam Abell |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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Red Bank |
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Downey |
Prescott |
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Antioch |
Edwards |
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Pine Bluff |
Bryson City |
Hart |
Kernersville |
Clarksville |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | - Sam Abell |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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