| I think you have to have a real point of view | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | more you realize what can be photographed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| communicate more powerfully than either | |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | It is not the language of painters but the |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| - Sam Abell | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | - Ansel Adams |
| 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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