| ...words and pictures can work together to | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| communicate more powerfully than either | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | more you realize what can be photographed |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | You just have to care about what's around you |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Photography takes an instant out of time, | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| Lange | - Sam Abell |
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| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| Stieglitz | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| - Ansel Adams | 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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