| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | It is not the language of painters but the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| Weston | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| Rowell | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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Boston |
Long Beach |
Abilene |
Pasadena |
Brunswick |
Ann Arbor |
Richmond |
Palm Beach Gardens |
Gadsden |
Nashville |
Olathe |
Lufkin |
Clanton |
Vero Beach |
Gunnison |
Lexington |
Leavenworth |
Alpena |
Long Beach |
Wayne |
Saranac Lake |
Grandville |
Hamilton |
St. Charles |
Camden |
Paintsville |
Commerce |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Adams |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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