| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| - Ansel Adams | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Pittsburgh |
New York |
St. Paul |
Augusta |
Las Vegas |
Southfield |
Alton |
Santa Clara |
Rock Island |
Bolingbrook |
Rockville |
Brady |
Lake Forest |
Whittier |
Hazlehurst |
Sonoma |
Kailua Kona |
Deerfield |
East Liverpool |
London |
Clifton |
Millen |
Castle Rock |
Front Royal |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | One should really use the camera as though |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | - Dorothea Lange |
| Adams | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| more you realize what can be photographed | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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