| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | situation nearly as interesting as |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| would be slowed down by painting or | Allard |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | more you realize what can be photographed |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | Lange |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | world about you, and trust to your own |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | - Ansel Adams |
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