| One should really use the camera as though | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Weston | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| 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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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| world about you, and trust to your own | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| It is not the language of painters but the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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