| I think you have to have a real point of view | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Stieglitz |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | world about you, and trust to your own |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | "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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| 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 | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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