| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Weston | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| 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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Tucson |
Tulsa |
Rochester |
Bethlehem |
North Canton |
Hickory |
Port Orchard |
Richmond |
Council Bluffs |
Grants |
Bemidji |
Coraopolis |
Norton |
Moultrie |
Kingston |
Big Sky |
Bradford |
Brooklawn |
Navarre Beach |
Mocksville |
Clovis |
Key West |
Galena |
South Hill |
Lanham |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | It is not the language of painters but the |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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