| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| has to transform the photographer into an | communicate more powerfully than either |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | Photography is about finding out what can |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | edges around some facts, you change those |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| Weston | |
| | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be made. - Sam Abell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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