| It is not the language of painters but the | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Stieglitz | Adams |
| | |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
|
|
New York |
Tampa |
Oklahoma City |
Crossville |
Decatur |
Melbourne |
Blackfoot |
Swedesboro |
Rockaway |
Valentine |
Stoughton |
Waynesboro |
Monticello |
Waynesboro |
Ashland |
Fayetteville |
Rawlins |
Norfolk |
Dundee |
Boynton Beach |
Medford |
Brea |
East Dublin |
Altamonte Springs |
Kaufman |
Ft. Worth |
Jefferson City |
|
|
| I think you have to have a real point of view | One should really use the camera as though |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Dorothea Lange |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
|