| It is not the language of painters but the | One should really use the camera as though |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | - Dorothea Lange |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Chicago |
Sarasota |
Louisville |
Virginia Beach |
Tallahassee |
Bloomington |
Marietta |
Hagerstown |
Alameda |
Cary |
Burlington |
Green Bay |
Maple Grove |
Chillicothe |
Hampton |
Olive Branch |
Park Ridge |
Harrisburg |
Dell Rapids |
Watertown |
Imperial Beach |
Tuscola |
Waynesville |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | those that you are going to make. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Adams | |
| | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | - Edward Steichen |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
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