| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| - Sam Abell | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | - Ansel Adams |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Photography is about finding out what can |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | |
| situation nearly as interesting as | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Allard | |
| | ...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 | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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