| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Sam Abell | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| Rowell | - Ansel Adams |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| You just have to care about what's around you | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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