| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Rowell |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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New York |
Santa Ana |
Stuart |
Billings |
Moorhead |
Richland |
Oconomowoc |
Greensburg |
Peoria |
Bellflower |
St. Joseph |
El Reno |
Winnsboro |
Boston |
Benson |
Warrenton |
Portland |
Byron |
Placitas |
Columbus |
Bloomington |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| communicate more powerfully than either | |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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