| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| world about you, and trust to your own | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Sam Abell |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| be made. - Sam Abell | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| Allard | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | 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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