| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | edges around some facts, you change those |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| be made. - Sam Abell | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Brooklyn |
New York |
Oklahoma City |
Riverside |
Youngstown |
Mesa |
St. Joseph |
Whittier |
Yorktown |
Ruston |
Americus |
Jackson |
Overland Park |
Niles |
Cameron Park |
Briarcliff Manor |
Bloomfield Hills |
Windsor Locks |
Socorro |
Celina |
Brewerton |
Wake Forest |
St Simons Island |
Saugus |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| You just have to care about what's around you | - Sam Abell |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| Adams | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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