| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| situation nearly as interesting as | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| Allard | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | It is not the language of painters but the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| more you realize what can be photographed | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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Philadelphia |
San Jose |
Kalamazoo |
Sumter |
Bayside |
Silver Spring |
Stockton |
Hampton |
Santa Rosa |
Farmington Hills |
Scranton |
West Columbia |
Imlay City |
London |
Bourbonnais |
Central City |
East Aurora |
Belen |
Clarksville |
Bowie |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| would be slowed down by painting or | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography is about finding out what can |
| has to transform the photographer into an | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | edges around some facts, you change those |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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