| No place is boring, if you've had a good | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | Rowell |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | 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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Houston |
Chicago |
San Antonio |
Raleigh |
Lakeland |
Sunnyvale |
Glendale |
Kennett Square |
Idaho Falls |
Baytown |
West Warwick |
Natchez |
West Hollywood |
Golden |
Pulaski |
Elyria |
Fredericksburg |
Fayetteville |
Thomaston |
Rocky Mount |
Bothell |
Decatur |
Langley Park |
Rutherford |
Spring Lake |
Rochelle Park |
Willis |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography is about finding out what can |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | edges around some facts, you change those |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| - Aaron Siskind | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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