| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| You just have to care about what's around you | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Photography is about finding out what can |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | edges around some facts, you change those |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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