| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | |
| - Sam Abell | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Weston | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | |
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New York |
Indianapolis |
Knoxville |
Jersey City |
Fresno |
St. Louis |
Metairie |
Bronx |
Culver City |
Palestine |
New Haven |
Germantown |
Calhoun |
Dexter |
Del Mar |
Canton |
Mobile |
Wellington |
Eagle River |
Natchez |
Troy |
Tumwater |
Stamford |
Danville |
Wilkes Barre |
Newton |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | 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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