| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | You just have to care about what's around you |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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Las Vegas |
Orlando |
Richmond |
Arlington |
Indianapolis |
Salt Lake City |
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Memphis |
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Edina |
Lufkin |
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Janesville |
Boone |
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Brookings |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | communicate more powerfully than either |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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