| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | communicate more powerfully than either |
| Rowell | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| One should really use the camera as though | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Dorothea Lange | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Houston |
San Antonio |
Cleveland |
Baton Rouge |
Pittsburgh |
Rockford |
New York |
Long Beach |
Lorain |
Lakeland |
Carson City |
Kennesaw |
Grants Pass |
Southaven |
Cocoa |
Marshall |
Champaign |
Summit |
Rockville Centre |
Columbus |
Dumas |
Yakima |
Conyers |
Lake Geneva |
Alpharetta |
Winchester |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| more you realize what can be photographed | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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