| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | Rowell |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| be made. - Sam Abell | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| communicate more powerfully than either | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
| | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | You just have to care about what's around you |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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