| I think you have to have a real point of view | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | You just have to care about what's around you |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| those that you are going to make. | |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
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Roanoke |
Fort Myers |
Vero Beach |
Clearwater |
Downey |
Livonia |
El Paso |
Edwardsville |
Athens |
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Pottsville |
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Henderson |
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Asheboro |
Ontario |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | - Aaron Siskind |
| 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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