| ...words and pictures can work together to | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| communicate more powerfully than either | |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | situation nearly as interesting as |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Allard |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| world about you, and trust to your own | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Sam Abell |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | has to transform the photographer into an |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| - Ansel Adams | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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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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