| It is not the language of painters but the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Photography is about finding out what can |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | edges around some facts, you change those |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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Raleigh |
Wichita |
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Franklin |
Saginaw |
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Fontana |
Storm Lake |
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Sioux City |
Goose Creek |
Iselin |
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Scottsboro |
Zephyrhills |
Napa |
Moultrie |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | would be slowed down by painting or |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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