| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| world about you, and trust to your own | communicate more powerfully than either |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | Photography is about finding out what can |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | edges around some facts, you change those |
| - Ansel Adams | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Sam Abell | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | more you realize what can be photographed |
| has to transform the photographer into an | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | You just have to care about what's around you |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| 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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