| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| You just have to care about what's around you | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
| | ...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 | |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| has to transform the photographer into an | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | world about you, and trust to your own |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | - Ansel Adams |
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