| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | - Dorothea Lange |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | |
| situation nearly as interesting as | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | has to transform the photographer into an |
| Allard | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Adams | 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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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| It is not the language of painters but the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| world about you, and trust to your own | |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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