| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Rowell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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Phoenix |
Charlotte |
Madison |
Shreveport |
Miami |
Tacoma |
Tucson |
Longwood |
Bay City |
Huntsville |
Shelbyville |
Fort Smith |
Kerrville |
Harrison |
Culpeper |
Monterey Park |
Gettysburg |
Flushing |
Philippi |
Shoreview |
Pearland |
Oswego |
Sunriver |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | It is not the language of painters but the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| communicate more powerfully than either | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | - Aaron Siskind |
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