| One should really use the camera as though | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Rowell | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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Charlotte |
Torrance |
York |
Troy |
Vista |
Bay City |
Quincy |
Placerville |
Stuart |
San Rafael |
Columbia |
Barre |
Altoona |
Frankfort |
Artesia |
Brigham City |
Anderson |
Rockland |
Pawtucket |
Arcadia |
Demopolis |
Southfield |
Goody |
Las Vegas |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | It is not the language of painters but the |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| Photography is about finding out what can | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Aaron Siskind |
| 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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