| One should really use the camera as though | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Dorothea Lange | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | more you realize what can be photographed |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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Phoenix |
Staten Island |
Akron |
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Elyria |
La Mirada |
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Pine Bluff |
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Evergreen |
Spring Lake |
Santa Clara |
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Jefferson City |
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Wallace |
White River Junction |
Vincennes |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| world about you, and trust to your own | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| be made. - Sam Abell | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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