| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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Boca Raton |
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Southfield |
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Mountain Home |
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Birmingham |
Port Huron |
Aurora |
Bardstown |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| world about you, and trust to your own | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | would be slowed down by painting or |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| It is not the language of painters but the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | 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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