| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | situation nearly as interesting as |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | Allard |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | has to transform the photographer into an |
| edges around some facts, you change those | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| 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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