| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| has to transform the photographer into an | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Omaha |
Austin |
Stuart |
Santa Rosa |
Naples |
Cleveland |
Sun City |
Springboro |
Deptford |
Menlo Park |
Wilson |
Holly Springs |
Hattiesburg |
El Campo |
New Castle |
Brockport |
Tillamook |
De Soto |
Kinder |
Hesperia |
Schenectady |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| more you realize what can be photographed | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | be made. - Sam Abell |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| You just have to care about what's around you | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | - Aaron Siskind |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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