| ...words and pictures can work together to | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| communicate more powerfully than either | has to transform the photographer into an |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Weston |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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New Orleans |
Fresno |
Sioux Falls |
Abilene |
Wausau |
Thomasville |
San Angelo |
Walnut Creek |
Pottsville |
Muncie |
Carlsbad |
Hutchinson |
Alexandria |
Johnson City |
Frankfort |
Kingston |
Bridgeport |
Dublin |
Donalsonville |
Blackfoot |
Candler |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | situation nearly as interesting as |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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