| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| Weston | - Edward Steichen |
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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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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Aaron Siskind |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | 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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