| Memory is very important, the memory of | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | |
| communicate more powerfully than either | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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Yonkers |
Tempe |
Little Rock |
San Diego |
Muncie |
Richardson |
Petaluma |
Sulphur Springs |
Jonesboro |
Gardner |
Kilgore |
Alpena |
Cranford |
Renton |
White Bear Lake |
Dayton |
Hasbrouck Heights |
Tampa |
Deadwood |
Lake Arrowhead |
North Plainfield |
New Ashford |
Kokomo |
Hays |
Delta |
Hutchinson Island |
Monterey |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | One should really use the camera as though |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Dorothea Lange |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | would be slowed down by painting or |
| be made. - Sam Abell | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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