| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| more you realize what can be photographed | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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Chicago |
San Diego |
Memphis |
Overland Park |
Stockton |
Monroe |
Brunswick |
Roseburg |
Lake Oswego |
Rome |
Glen Ellyn |
Douglasville |
Dublin |
Clarks Summit |
Perry |
Keene |
San Juan Capistrano |
Jasper |
Tucson |
Prairie Du Chien |
Cumberland |
Camden |
Joelton |
Fairborn |
Blythewood |
Methuen |
Mt. Vernon |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Sam Abell |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | One should really use the camera as though |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | |
| Stieglitz | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | 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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