| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Edward Steichen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| - Aaron Siskind | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Omaha |
Detroit |
Flint |
Grand Rapids |
Cape Coral |
Hendersonville |
Dickson |
Myrtle Beach |
North Bergen |
Texarkana |
Decatur |
Baraboo |
Chicago |
Boca Raton |
Mifflintown |
Prineville |
Portland |
The Woodlands |
Big Bear Lake |
Rancho Bernardo |
Clovis |
Manhattan |
Shawnee |
Big Sky |
Perryville |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | - Dorothea Lange |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
| | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | has to transform the photographer into an |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| situation nearly as interesting as | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | 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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