| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | world about you, and trust to your own |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | - Ansel Adams |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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Oklahoma City |
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Springfield |
Lexington |
Metairie |
Muskegon |
Lansing |
Aurora |
Fort Wayne |
Chicopee |
Elkins |
Brighton |
Milpitas |
Southampton |
Charlottesville |
Culpeper |
Pacific Grove |
Hartford |
Oak Harbor |
Jackson |
Dubuque |
Woodstock |
Vidalia |
Dansville |
Ozark |
Cape Coral |
Vineyard Haven |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| - Edward Steichen | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| communicate more powerfully than either | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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