| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | One should really use the camera as though |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | - Dorothea Lange |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| be made. - Sam Abell | 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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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| those that you are going to make. | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| That's life! - John Sexton | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Allard |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| 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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