| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| has to transform the photographer into an | world about you, and trust to your own |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| One should really use the camera as though | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| - Dorothea Lange | - Ansel Adams |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| 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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Cincinnati |
Dayton |
Modesto |
Knoxville |
New Orleans |
Greeley |
Thomaston |
Brooklyn Park |
Fernandina Beach |
Corona |
Blackwell |
Lexington |
Statesboro |
Coral Gables |
Queensbury |
Berea |
Haverhill |
Bentleyville |
Ukiah |
Bastrop |
Alma |
Friday Harbor |
Albuquerque |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography is about finding out what can |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Adams | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| more you realize what can be photographed | communicate more powerfully than either |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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