| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | has to transform the photographer into an |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Rowell |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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Houston |
Oklahoma City |
Jacksonville |
New Orleans |
Whittier |
Torrance |
Chula Vista |
Wausau |
New Bedford |
Waukesha |
Canton |
Norwalk |
Fort Wayne |
Katy |
West Plains |
Sudbury |
Hillsboro |
Ridgeland |
Palatine |
Haverhill |
Hinesville |
Geneva |
Port Jervis |
Richfield |
Lafayette |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| communicate more powerfully than either | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | You just have to care about what's around you |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| 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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