| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | One should really use the camera as though |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | - Dorothea Lange |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | 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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Indianapolis |
San Francisco |
Pensacola |
Henderson |
Quincy |
Plano |
Pocatello |
Rochester |
Alton |
Lakewood |
Erwin |
Eufaula |
Encinitas |
Pigeon Forge |
Campbell |
Newberg |
Fort Mitchell |
West Helena |
San Dimas |
North Ridgeville |
Cuthbert |
Richmondville |
Loudon |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | be made. - Sam Abell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | Lange |
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