| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | - Sam Abell |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| be made. - Sam Abell | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| world about you, and trust to your own | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| - Ansel Adams | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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Houston |
Atlanta |
San Diego |
Miami |
Staten Island |
Denver |
Fort Worth |
Overland Park |
Pasadena |
Iron Mountain |
Rome |
Atlantic |
Escondido |
Chiefland |
Park Rapids |
Higginsville |
Beaufort |
Carbondale |
Beeville |
Morgantown |
Willcox |
Tooele |
Purgatory |
Farmington |
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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 | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| Allard | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | those that you are going to make. |
| | That's life! - John Sexton |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| 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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