| Photography is about finding out what can | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | world about you, and trust to your own |
| edges around some facts, you change those | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Sam Abell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | has to transform the photographer into an |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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