| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | Allard |
| Lange | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| world about you, and trust to your own | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | more you realize what can be photographed |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| One should really use the camera as though | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | those that you are going to make. |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| 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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