| Photography records the gamut of feelings | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| - Edward Steichen | - Aaron Siskind |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | more you realize what can be photographed |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
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