| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | world about you, and trust to your own |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| more you realize what can be photographed | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | - Ansel Adams |
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