| I think you have to have a real point of view | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Weston |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Pittsburgh |
Bronx |
Spring Hill |
Redmond |
Ocean City |
Santa Barbara |
Freehold |
Gastonia |
Glenview |
Ladysmith |
Reno |
Stockton |
Bentleyville |
Hanover |
Tunkhannock |
Middletown |
Castro Valley |
Nyack |
Tallapoosa |
Salina |
Pryor |
Anderson |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | world about you, and trust to your own |
| situation nearly as interesting as | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| Allard | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| more you realize what can be photographed | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | - Aaron Siskind |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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