| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| those that you are going to make. | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | One should really use the camera as though |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | - Dorothea Lange |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| 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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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | world about you, and trust to your own |
| situation nearly as interesting as | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| Allard | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | - Ansel Adams |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | 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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