| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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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 |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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 | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| world about you, and trust to your own | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you realize what can be photographed |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| be made. - Sam Abell | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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