| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| has to transform the photographer into an | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | situation nearly as interesting as |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | more you realize what can be photographed |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | It is not the language of painters but the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | - Aaron Siskind |
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