| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| situation nearly as interesting as | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| Allard | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | - Dorothea Lange |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | Rowell |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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