| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | would be slowed down by painting or |
| be made. - Sam Abell | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| Lange | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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Houston |
Cincinnati |
Brooklyn |
San Francisco |
Chicago |
El Paso |
Fort Wayne |
Columbia |
Hemet |
Newark |
Walnut Creek |
Methuen |
Ukiah |
Overland Park |
Tinley Park |
Norton |
Marysville |
Lewisburg |
Arroyo Grande |
Buena Park |
Champaign |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | more you realize what can be photographed |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
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