| I almost never set out to photograph a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| Rowell | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| 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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Houston |
Los Angeles |
Yonkers |
Baton Rouge |
Aurora |
Nashville |
Jersey City |
Greenwood |
Brownsville |
Newport |
Oxford |
Lynchburg |
Glens Falls |
Glendale |
Galax |
Mill Valley |
Chipley |
Leeds |
Greenwood |
Dalhart |
Mount Pleasant |
Rock Falls |
Canyon |
Katy |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
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