| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| You just have to care about what's around you | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | - Ansel Adams |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | It is not the language of painters but the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | One should really use the camera as though |
| communicate more powerfully than either | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | - Dorothea Lange |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| edges around some facts, you change those | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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