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  The camera makes everyone a tourist in other    I think the best pictures are often on the edges  
  people's reality. - Susan Sontag    of any situation, I don't find photographing the  
      situation nearly as interesting as  
  Photography suits the temper of this ageof    photographing the edges. - William Albert  
  active bodies and minds. It is a perfect    Allard  
  medium for one whose mind is teeming with      
  ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who    You learn to see by practice. It's just like  
  would be slowed down by painting or    playing tennis, you get better the more you  
  sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts    play. The more you look around at things, the  
  decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston    more you see. The more you photograph, the  
      more you realize what can be photographed  
      and what can't be photographed. You just have  
      to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter  

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  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 a major force in explaining  
  "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the    man to man. - Edward Steichen  
  world about you, and trust to your own      
  reactions and convictions. Ask yourself:    Photography is about finding out what can  
  "Does this subject move me to feel, think    happen in the frame. When you put four  
  and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own    edges around some facts, you change those  
  personal statement of what I feel and want to    facts. - Gary Winogrand  
  convey - from the subject before me?"      
  - Ansel Adams      

 
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