| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Worcester |
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Gainesville |
Palo Alto |
Vineland |
Cleveland |
Vicksburg |
Brigantine |
Delano |
Marshfield |
Anderson |
Spartanburg |
Tampa |
Grand Prairie |
Jackson |
Canby |
Oldsmar |
Gaffney |
Salinas |
Harvey |
Secaucus |
Jamaica |
Bradenton Beach |
Simi Valley |
Scottsburg |
Beckley |
Pollock Pines |
Clayton |
Pulaski |
Apex |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | situation nearly as interesting as |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Allard |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Adams |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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