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  The difficulty with color is to go beyond the    Photography records the gamut of feelings  
  fact that it's color to have it be not just a    written on the human face, the beauty of the  
  colorful picture but really be a picture about    earth and skies that man has inherited and the  
  something. It's difficult. So often color gets    wealth and confusion man has created.   
  caught up in color, and it becomes merely    - Edward Steichen  
  decorative. Some photographers use [ it ]      
  brilliantly to make visual statements combining    I think you have to have a real point of view  
  color and content; otherwise it is empty.     that's your own. You have to tell it your way.  
  - Mary Ellen Mark    And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a  
      specific magazine's point of view because it's  
      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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  "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the    You learn to see by practice. It's just like  
  world about you, and trust to your own    playing tennis, you get better the more you  
  reactions and convictions. Ask yourself:    play. The more you look around at things, the  
  "Does this subject move me to feel, think    more you see. The more you photograph, the  
  and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own    more you realize what can be photographed  
  personal statement of what I feel and want to    and what can't be photographed. You just have  
  convey - from the subject before me?"    to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter  
  - Ansel Adams      
      A great photograph is one that fully expresses  
  Photography takes an instant out of time,    what one feels, in the deepest sense, about  
  altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea    what is being photographed. - Ansel  
  Lange    Adams  

 
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