| Photography knows how to authenticate its | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Weston |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | world about you, and trust to your own |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| Adams | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Ansel Adams |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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