| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | more you realize what can be photographed |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Adams |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | Stieglitz |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| communicate more powerfully than either | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | be made. - Sam Abell |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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