| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| world about you, and trust to your own | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | edges around some facts, you change those |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| 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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Pittsburgh |
New York |
Memphis |
Little Rock |
Saginaw |
Lakeland |
Canton |
San Mateo |
St. Louis |
Scottsdale |
Rockmart |
Lafayette |
Newport |
Redmond |
Willmar |
Forrest City |
Latrobe |
Livingston |
Cleveland |
Los Alamitos |
St. Ignace |
Briarcliff Manor |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| Weston | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| has to transform the photographer into an | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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