| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| has to transform the photographer into an | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | You just have to care about what's around you |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| 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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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Stieglitz |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | - Ansel Adams |
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