| 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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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| Rowell | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | - Aaron Siskind |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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