| Photography takes an instant out of time, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Lange | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| world about you, and trust to your own | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | You just have to care about what's around you |
| - Ansel Adams | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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Houston |
Grand Rapids |
Longmont |
Eugene |
Lawton |
Somerset |
Ludington |
Shoreview |
Salina |
Anaheim |
Vermilion |
Rantoul |
Ft Worth |
Sidney |
Keyser |
El Paso |
Erick |
Smyrna |
Hazelhurst |
Warren |
Grayling |
Foxborough |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | - Edward Steichen |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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