| I think you have to have a real point of view | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | would be slowed down by painting or |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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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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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | - Aaron Siskind |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
| | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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