| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | edges around some facts, you change those |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | You just have to care about what's around you |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| - Aaron Siskind | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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