| Photography knows how to authenticate its | One should really use the camera as though |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | has to transform the photographer into an |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | 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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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | Stieglitz |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | world about you, and trust to your own |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| more you realize what can be photographed | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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