| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Weston | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| has to transform the photographer into an | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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Omaha |
Akron |
Beaumont |
Des Moines |
Nashville |
Manchester |
Lexington |
Niagara Falls |
Elk Grove Village |
Bloomsburg |
Denton |
Chestertown |
Kirkland |
Madison |
Attalla |
Mystic |
Summit |
Redmond |
Bethel |
Minnetonka |
Enterprise |
Medford |
Ontario |
Natchez |
Trinidad |
Montvale |
Georgetown |
Sublimity |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Adams |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | situation nearly as interesting as |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | Allard |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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