| Photography takes an instant out of time, | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| Lange | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| world about you, and trust to your own | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| - Ansel Adams | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| has to transform the photographer into an | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | You just have to care about what's around you |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | 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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