| Photography is a major force in explaining | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| Photography is about finding out what can | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | would be slowed down by painting or |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| - Aaron Siskind | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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