| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Edward Steichen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| It is not the language of painters but the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Dallas |
Memphis |
Brooklyn |
Indianapolis |
Long Beach |
Bronx |
Wichita |
El Paso |
Fort Myers |
St. Louis |
Mesa |
Russellville |
Martinsburg |
Southaven |
Woodbury |
Waukegan |
New Holland |
Freehold |
Buena Vista |
Cody |
Gadsden |
Miamisburg |
Mcminnville |
Stone Mountain |
Franklin |
Lexington |
Wagoner |
Winthrop |
New Lisbon |
Asbury Park |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Rowell |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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