| ...words and pictures can work together to | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| communicate more powerfully than either | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Edward Steichen | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | 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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Poughkeepsie |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| | Rowell |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| - Ansel Adams | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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