| One should really use the camera as though | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| - Dorothea Lange | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | - Aaron Siskind |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| Weston | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Stieglitz |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| 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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Tyler |
Morristown |
Bethlehem |
Kenosha |
Moberly |
Safford |
Wichita |
Jensen Beach |
Clearfield |
Marina Del Rey |
Wadsworth |
Weslaco |
Yonkers |
Muskegon |
Henderson |
Victoria |
Stroudsburg |
Manhattan |
Woodward |
Syracuse |
Payson |
Ronkonkoma |
Moosic |
Centreville |
Cullman |
Bridgeville |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| communicate more powerfully than either | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Allard |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| 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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