| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| be made. - Sam Abell | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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Houston |
Boca Raton |
Council Bluffs |
Denver |
Spokane |
Houma |
Cullman |
Coopersburg |
Watertown |
Lebanon |
Arlington |
Dedham |
Essex Junction |
Cincinnati |
Chester |
Sauk Centre |
North Palm Beach |
Owasso |
Allentown |
Corning |
Sullivan |
Scotts Valley |
Jekyll Island |
Kohala Coast Island Of Hawai I |
Newport |
Perry |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | communicate more powerfully than either |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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