| Photography knows how to authenticate its | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | Allard |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| - Edward Steichen | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | One should really use the camera as though |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | - Dorothea Lange |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| be made. - Sam Abell | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| world about you, and trust to your own | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Sam Abell |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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