| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Aaron Siskind | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | more you realize what can be photographed |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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Bronx |
Kansas City |
Albuquerque |
Orlando |
Rockford |
Sioux City |
Rocky Mount |
Hesperia |
Corsicana |
Harrisburg |
Newark |
Milpitas |
Roxboro |
Northborough |
Sparks |
Hackensack |
Lahaina |
Greer |
Fort Lauderdale |
National City |
Shakopee |
Chaska |
Kahana |
Centerville |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| - Edward Steichen | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| | Rowell |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | has to transform the photographer into an |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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