| I think you have to have a real point of view | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | Allard |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | |
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New York |
Miami |
Brooklyn |
Overland Park |
Athens |
Katy |
Daytona Beach |
Gastonia |
Hot Springs |
Blacksburg |
Greeley |
Cheyenne |
Hollywood |
Reno |
Owatonna |
West Valley City |
Mount Laurel |
Manhattan |
Shelton |
Aberdeen |
American Fork |
Sturgis |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | Lange |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| Rowell | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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