| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| One should really use the camera as though | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | more you realize what can be photographed |
| - Dorothea Lange | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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Brooklyn |
Dallas |
Phoenix |
Pensacola |
Grand Rapids |
Jackson |
Livonia |
Kansas City |
Newport Beach |
Littleton |
Fort Pierce |
North Canton |
Longwood |
Holiday |
Northport |
Cranford |
Falls Church |
Palm Beach Gardens |
Tomahawk |
Milford |
Kaufman |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| be made. - Sam Abell | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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