| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| would be slowed down by painting or | - Edward Steichen |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | those that you are going to make. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | That's life! - John Sexton |
| 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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Kingsport |
Marietta |
White Plains |
Harrisonburg |
Jacksonville |
Leominster |
Hollywood |
Elberton |
North Olmsted |
Blacksburg |
Avon |
Fremont |
Harrison |
Owasso |
Paris |
Hempstead |
Pueblo |
Weston |
Marshall |
Groton |
New York |
Woodstock |
Long Branch |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| world about you, and trust to your own | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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