| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Weston |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | One should really use the camera as though |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| situation nearly as interesting as | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Allard | 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 |
|
|
Seattle |
San Francisco |
Jersey City |
Tallahassee |
Allentown |
Rapid City |
Kalamazoo |
Pinellas Park |
Kansas City |
Los Gatos |
Harrisonville |
Boulder City |
Worthington |
Huntington Beach |
Stoughton |
Kittanning |
La Grange |
La Porte |
Mount Holly |
Trenton |
Roseville |
Strasburg |
Bolingbrook |
Tilton |
Fraser |
Michigan City |
Wichita |
Lakeville |
Union Gap |
|
|
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | It is not the language of painters but the |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| - Edward Steichen | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| | |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | "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 |
|