| Photography is about finding out what can | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | has to transform the photographer into an |
| edges around some facts, you change those | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | One should really use the camera as though |
| communicate more powerfully than either | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | - Dorothea Lange |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | Rowell |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | It is not the language of painters but the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| more you realize what can be photographed | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | 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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