| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Weston |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| edges around some facts, you change those | - Sam Abell |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
| | 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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Dallas |
Columbus |
San Diego |
Phoenix |
Sacramento |
Fayetteville |
Youngstown |
Waterloo |
Johnstown |
Troy |
Garden Grove |
Terre Haute |
Clovis |
Thomson |
Visalia |
Gulfport |
Elizabethtown |
Paintsville |
Ventura |
Highlands Ranch |
Raton |
Katy |
Universal City |
Lima |
Bayhead |
Markham |
Nisswa |
La Mirada |
Spearfish |
Kimball |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | more you realize what can be photographed |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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