| ...words and pictures can work together to | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| communicate more powerfully than either | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | - Aaron Siskind |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | more you realize what can be photographed |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| 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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