| It is not the language of painters but the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | Adams |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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New York |
Staten Island |
Santa Ana |
Charleston |
Waco |
Cape Coral |
Columbus |
Dayton |
Grand Rapids |
Muskogee |
Lake Forest |
Jackson |
Ennis |
Cedar Rapids |
Selma |
Milpitas |
Hoffman Estates |
Prineville |
Absecon |
Charleston |
Auburn |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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