| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | Stieglitz |
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| 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 | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| You just have to care about what's around you | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | - Aaron Siskind |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Rowell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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