| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| - Aaron Siskind | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| be made. - Sam Abell | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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Phoenix |
Philadelphia |
Brooklyn |
Baltimore |
Erie |
Lafayette |
Norfolk |
High Point |
Huntington |
Stockton |
Columbus |
Liberty |
Greensboro |
Big Stone Gap |
Imlay City |
Jefferson |
Burbank |
Colonial Heights |
Jackson |
Denton |
West Helena |
West Baraboo |
Arcadia |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | Photography is about finding out what can |
| | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | edges around some facts, you change those |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | communicate more powerfully than either |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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