| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | situation nearly as interesting as |
| Weston | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | more you realize what can be photographed |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | world about you, and trust to your own |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | - Ansel Adams |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Stieglitz |
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