| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Weston | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | be made. - Sam Abell |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | It is not the language of painters but the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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Richmond |
West Palm Beach |
Colorado Springs |
Albany |
Hollywood |
Visalia |
San Rafael |
Del Rio |
Ocean City |
Paris |
Boise |
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Artesia |
Sonora |
Mount Shasta |
Portsmouth |
Middletown |
New York City |
Laurel |
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Litchfield Park |
Silver City |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| edges around some facts, you change those | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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