| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| - Sam Abell | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | world about you, and trust to your own |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | - Ansel Adams |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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