| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | world about you, and trust to your own |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| would be slowed down by painting or | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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