| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | communicate more powerfully than either |
| Rowell | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Washington |
Miami |
Sarasota |
Tallahassee |
Chattanooga |
Tyler |
Cleveland |
Clinton Township |
Sacramento |
Easton |
Eufaula |
De Soto |
Texas City |
Warsaw |
Miami Springs |
Seguin |
Poughkeepsie |
Salem |
Flat Rock |
Peachtree City |
Shawnee |
Lakeland |
Beatrice |
Langhorne |
St. Albans |
Roseville |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | |
| Stieglitz | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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