| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | world about you, and trust to your own |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| more you realize what can be photographed | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | - Ansel Adams |
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Amarillo |
Santa Monica |
Zanesville |
Los Angeles |
New Smyrna Beach |
Erie |
Hopkinsville |
Green Bay |
Levittown |
Johnson City |
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Mobile |
Parkersburg |
Greensburg |
Corpus Christi |
Springfield |
Wilmington |
Westmont |
La Palma |
North Charleston |
Black River Falls |
Jackson |
Park Ridge |
Riverside |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| those that you are going to make. | |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
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