| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| - Sam Abell | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | more you realize what can be photographed |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| - Aaron Siskind | - Edward Steichen |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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