| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | Lange |
| Adams | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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