| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | has to transform the photographer into an |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| 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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San Antonio |
Las Vegas |
Staten Island |
Bronx |
Katy |
Olympia |
Midwest City |
Florence |
Moses Lake |
Braintree |
Martinez |
Sugar Land |
Sanford |
Boonville |
Germantown |
Fillmore |
City Of Industry |
Fort Walton Beach |
Houghton Lake |
Dyersburg |
Claypool Hill |
Lake Oswego |
Easton |
Donalsonvile |
Marshalls Creek |
Mccall |
Homestead |
Hollywood |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| communicate more powerfully than either | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | world about you, and trust to your own |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | - Ansel Adams |
| 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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