| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | - Sam Abell |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| You just have to care about what's around you | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | 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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Cedar Rapids |
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Rome |
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Camden |
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| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| Stieglitz | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| be made. - Sam Abell | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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