| Photography knows how to authenticate its | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | Rowell |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| 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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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | be made. - Sam Abell |
| Adams | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You just have to care about what's around you | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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