| Memory is very important, the memory of | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| 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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New York |
Oakland |
Arlington |
Waco |
Napa |
Guthrie |
Lancaster |
Holyoke |
Lorain |
Port Jervis |
Cohoes |
Roanoke |
Issaquah |
Brookhaven |
Northfield |
Fayetteville |
Augusta |
Ashland |
Decatur |
Downey |
Pharr |
Frazer |
Stevenson Ranch |
Malone |
Mount Arlington |
Waycross |
Cascade Locks |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | Rowell |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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