| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| - Aaron Siskind | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| You just have to care about what's around you | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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