| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | communicate more powerfully than either |
| Rowell | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Houston |
Philadelphia |
Columbus |
Warren |
Tupelo |
Claremore |
Greenwood |
Rancho Cucamonga |
Lowell |
Bastrop |
Bishopville |
Summit |
Florence |
Grenada |
Scottsboro |
Hartford |
Chandler |
Riverton |
Cleveland |
Braintree |
Danville |
Denton |
Morehead |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| more you realize what can be photographed | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | be made. - Sam Abell |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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