| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | - Sam Abell |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Weston |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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Chicago |
Brooklyn |
Houston |
San Francisco |
Los Angeles |
Garland |
New Smyrna Beach |
Palm Bay |
Vacaville |
Niles |
Hutchinson |
Santa Cruz |
Vicksburg |
Bethesda |
Brookhaven |
Prestonsburg |
Pittsfield |
Florence |
West Chester |
Longboat Key |
Rye |
Mount Holly |
Princess Anne |
Mount Vernon |
Elizabeth |
St Helena |
Lathrop |
Nederland |
Centreville |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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