| Now to consult the rules of composition before | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | You just have to care about what's around you |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Weston |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | One should really use the camera as though |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | - Dorothea Lange |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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