| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| You just have to care about what's around you | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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Houston |
Atlanta |
Denver |
Jacksonville |
Wichita |
Portland |
Irving |
Fort Wayne |
Saginaw |
Myrtle Beach |
Elyria |
Montebello |
Bettendorf |
Paso Robles |
Monroeville |
Carthage |
Santa Clara |
Guthrie |
Goshen |
Appleton |
Whitmore Lake |
Fishkill |
New Castle |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| would be slowed down by painting or | - Edward Steichen |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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