| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | Stieglitz |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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Brooklyn |
Shreveport |
Washington |
Springfield |
Jackson |
Alameda |
Jasper |
Turlock |
Yuba City |
Jacksonville |
Muskogee |
Norfolk |
Punta Gorda |
Huntington Station |
Hauppauge |
Hayti |
Truth Or Consequences |
Graham |
Bryan |
Murphy |
Moulton |
Franklin |
Dubuque |
Manistique |
Altoona |
Belgrade |
Carthage |
Casper |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| communicate more powerfully than either | has to transform the photographer into an |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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