| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | situation nearly as interesting as |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | Allard |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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Baltimore |
Athens |
Pekin |
Bozeman |
Tomball |
Puyallup |
Hampton |
Liberty |
Canton |
Astoria |
Hazard |
Pleasanton |
Cordova |
Gretna |
Jeffersonville |
Worcester |
Aiken |
Corinth |
Cocoa Beach |
Sausalito |
New Boston |
Larkspur |
Gainesville |
Toledo |
Aventura |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | has to transform the photographer into an |
| edges around some facts, you change those | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | One should really use the camera as though |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Dorothea Lange |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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