| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | It is not the language of painters but the |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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Alexandria |
Oakland |
Amarillo |
Colorado Springs |
Littleton |
Nashville |
Oceanside |
Norcross |
Philadelphia |
Union |
San Pedro |
Sun City Center |
Milaca |
Reston |
Hutchinson |
Palm Beach |
Dumas |
Bristol |
Beaver Dam |
Monticello |
Vero Beach |
Harvey |
Carneys Point |
Grayling |
Ranger |
Paris |
Lancaster |
Darien |
West Memphis |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| has to transform the photographer into an | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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