| Photography knows how to authenticate its | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | One should really use the camera as though |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | - Dorothea Lange |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| Lange | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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