| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | Stieglitz |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| - Sam Abell | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography is about finding out what can |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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