| Photography takes an instant out of time, | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| | One should really use the camera as though |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | - Dorothea Lange |
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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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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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