| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| It is not the language of painters but the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | Rowell |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | 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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Las Vegas |
Anaheim |
Hattiesburg |
Jackson |
Portsmouth |
Franklin |
Edina |
Cerritos |
Frederick |
Eugene |
Blackfoot |
Vineland |
Kalkaska |
Watertown |
Plymouth |
Rockville |
North Attleboro |
Bastrop |
Suffern |
North Little Rock |
Pawtucket |
Camp Verde |
Uhrichsville |
Beaumont |
Morris |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| situation nearly as interesting as | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| more you realize what can be photographed | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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