| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Photography is about finding out what can |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | It is not the language of painters but the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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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 |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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