| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| world about you, and trust to your own | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | One should really use the camera as though |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | - Dorothea Lange |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Lange | 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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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| Adams | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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