| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
| Lange | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| world about you, and trust to your own | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | Rowell |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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Baltimore |
Colorado Springs |
Rochester |
Richmond |
Melbourne |
Chula Vista |
Kansas City |
Santa Barbara |
Palestine |
Manhattan |
Hudson |
Fort Mill |
Roslyn |
El Paso |
Broomfield |
Westfield |
Athens |
Thomaston |
Pontiac |
Blaine |
Hannibal |
Hammond |
Homewood |
Woonsocket |
Kentwood |
Harrodsburg |
Sardine Canyon |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Adams | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| You just have to care about what's around you | edges around some facts, you change those |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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