| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | situation nearly as interesting as |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Allard |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you realize what can be photographed |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| be made. - Sam Abell | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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New York |
Louisville |
Memphis |
Akron |
San Jose |
Denton |
Oklahoma City |
Frankfort |
Metairie |
Kokomo |
Richardson |
Lake Charles |
Burbank |
Lancaster |
Piscataway |
Lake City |
Hazleton |
Wallace |
Mount Dora |
Thief River Falls |
Laurinburg |
Beaver Dam |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Weston | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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