| Photography records the gamut of feelings | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| - Edward Steichen | - Aaron Siskind |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| more you realize what can be photographed | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
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