| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | - Ansel Adams |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Edward Steichen |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| You just have to care about what's around you | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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