| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| has to transform the photographer into an | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | communicate more powerfully than either |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| 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 | 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 | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| 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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