| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | has to transform the photographer into an |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
| | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Lange | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | communicate more powerfully than either |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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