| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| - Sam Abell | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| has to transform the photographer into an | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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| 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 |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| situation nearly as interesting as | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| more you realize what can be photographed | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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