| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Adams | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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Lakewood |
Iowa City |
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Valley |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | - Sam Abell |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| world about you, and trust to your own | has to transform the photographer into an |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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