| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | world about you, and trust to your own |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| would be slowed down by painting or | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | It is not the language of painters but the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| more you realize what can be photographed | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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