| I think you have to have a real point of view | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Adams |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| communicate more powerfully than either | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| - Aaron Siskind | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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