| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Sam Abell | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| has to transform the photographer into an | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | - Edward Steichen |
| 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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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | - Aaron Siskind |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| 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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