| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Adams | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | Stieglitz |
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| One should really use the camera as though | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| - Dorothea Lange | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | - Ansel Adams |
| 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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