| I think you have to have a real point of view | One should really use the camera as though |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Dorothea Lange |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | - Sam Abell |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| - Edward Steichen | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| world about you, and trust to your own | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | Adams |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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