| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Sam Abell | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| Rowell | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | be made. - Sam Abell |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | |
| You just have to care about what's around you | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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