| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| Stieglitz | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| world about you, and trust to your own | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | You just have to care about what's around you |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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