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  Photography is a major force in explaining    Photography suits the temper of this ageof  
  man to man. - Edward Steichen    active bodies and minds. It is a perfect  
      medium for one whose mind is teeming with  
  You've got to push yourself harder. You've got    ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who  
  to start looking for pictures nobody else could    would be slowed down by painting or  
  take. You've got to take the tools you have and    sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts  
  probe deeper. - William Albert Allard    decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston  
        
  I think you have to have a real point of view    The difficulty with color is to go beyond the  
  that's your own. You have to tell it your way.    fact that it's color to have it be not just a  
  And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a    colorful picture but really be a picture about  
  specific magazine's point of view because it's    something. It's difficult. So often color gets  
  never going to be as good. You have to shoot    caught up in color, and it becomes merely  
  for yourself and photograph [the way] you    decorative. Some photographers use [ it ]  
  believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark    brilliantly to make visual statements combining  
      color and content; otherwise it is empty.   
      - Mary Ellen Mark  

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  [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching,    A room hung with pictures is a room hung with  
  of loving. What you have caught on film is    thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds  
  captured forever . . . it remembers little things,      
  long after you have forgotten everything.     A picture is the expression of an impression. If  
  - Aaron Siskind    the beautiful were not in us, how would we  
      ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas  
  "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the      
  world about you, and trust to your own    I think the best pictures are often on the edges  
  reactions and convictions. Ask yourself:    of any situation, I don't find photographing the  
  "Does this subject move me to feel, think    situation nearly as interesting as  
  and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own    photographing the edges. - William Albert  
  personal statement of what I feel and want to    Allard  
  convey - from the subject before me?"      
  - Ansel Adams      

 
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