| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | has to transform the photographer into an |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Adams | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | One should really use the camera as though |
| situation nearly as interesting as | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | - Dorothea Lange |
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Tucson |
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Jersey City |
Springfield |
Evanston |
Elkhart |
Del City |
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Stoughton |
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Roswell |
Pocahontas |
Baker City |
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| 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 knows how to authenticate its |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | 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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