| Memory is very important, the memory of | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | - Aaron Siskind |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Wilmington |
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Maple Shade |
Hereford |
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Galesburg |
Foothill Ranch |
Cortez |
Fond Du Lac |
Falling Waters |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Sam Abell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | has to transform the photographer into an |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | 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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