| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Weston |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
| Lange | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | would be slowed down by painting or |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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