| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Sam Abell | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | more you realize what can be photographed |
| has to transform the photographer into an | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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