| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| be made. - Sam Abell | 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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New York |
Atlanta |
Knoxville |
Jupiter |
Long Island City |
Greensboro |
San Bernardino |
Chillicothe |
Independence |
Des Moines |
Acworth |
Great Neck |
Brunswick |
Alliance |
Abbeville |
Murray |
Laramie |
Canton |
Ridgecrest |
Iselin |
Rochester |
Fremont |
Pompano Beach |
New Providence |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| communicate more powerfully than either | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Allard |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Edward Steichen | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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