| Now to consult the rules of composition before | One should really use the camera as though |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Dorothea Lange |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| It is not the language of painters but the | Weston |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | 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 |
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Omaha |
Alameda |
Edison |
Tempe |
Minneapolis |
Laurinburg |
Roseburg |
Pella |
Pacific Grove |
West Warwick |
Addison |
Delano |
Batavia |
Ellsworth |
Ozark |
Alton |
Chelmsford |
South Plainfield |
Berkeley |
Marietta |
Truckee |
Manchester |
Red Oak |
Paris |
Sisters |
Heavener |
Mt. Vernon |
Morehead City |
Annapolis Junction |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| | communicate more powerfully than either |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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