| Photography is a major force in explaining | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | more you realize what can be photographed |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| world about you, and trust to your own | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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