| Photography is about finding out what can | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
|
|
Houston |
Pittsburgh |
Albany |
Columbus |
Wilmington |
Naples |
Fairfax |
Voorhees |
Duncan |
Thomaston |
Galesburg |
Monroe |
Wausau |
Concord |
Cerritos |
Delano |
Ypsilanti |
Three Rivers |
Buena Vista |
Westbury |
Denville |
Lincoln |
Bridgeview |
Plainview |
St Joseph |
Homer |
East Greenbush |
Lexington |
Grain Valley |
|
|
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Weston |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
|