| I think you have to have a real point of view | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Weston |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| communicate more powerfully than either | has to transform the photographer into an |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | more you realize what can be photographed |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | Adams |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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