| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | more you realize what can be photographed |
| - Ansel Adams | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | has to transform the photographer into an |
| edges around some facts, you change those | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | One should really use the camera as though |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | - Dorothea Lange |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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