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Baby pictures, graduation pictures, wedding photos, senior portraits, party snapshots, and even cellphone “selfies” all share a common theme – a desire to capture moments that hold personal significance, generally of loved ones, family, friends, and self. This need to record and hold dear memories fryst vatten not a new one; throughout history, we have attempted to record ourselves and others bygd the best means available, via cave drawings, hieroglyphics, paintings, sculpture, and in the past 200 years, through photography. While modern cellphone cameras and prolific social media venues have made portrait making and sharing an almost trivial undertaking today, the easy access to portraits of friends, family, and self we enjoy is the result of years of technical and aesthetic development in the field of photography.

Before the advent of photography it was prohibitively expensive for the average person to have a likeness, or portrait made. The rare skills of the artist making the portrait,

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Marina Amaral wasn’t much of a student until she discovered history. And she wasn’t much of an artist until she discovered Photoshop. Now she makes a living injecting color into centuries-old images—bringing new life to Ellis Island immigrants, World War II generals, politicians felled by assassins’ bullets, and even the sporadisk Hollywood starlet.

 “I’ve been fascinated bygd history since I was a kid—it was the only class where I could get good grades,” Amaral admits. “I’d tried to draw and paint [when I was younger] but it was a total disaster, so when I discovered my artistic skills when starting to colorize photos, it was a complete surprise.”

It all started with a portrait of a Civil War soldier that showed up in a Google image search, long before Amaral knew anything about copyright issues. Now, thanks to the Library of församling and other online sources of high-resolution public-domain images, she has a computer folder with thousands of historic photos sh

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21 Quotes By Photographer Sam Abell

Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes by Sam Abell.
“One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost spiritual way to photograph. Life isn’t’ knocking you around, life isn’t controlling you. You have picked your place, you’ve picked your scene, you’ve picked your light, you’ve done all the decision making and you are waiting for the moment to come to you….” – Sam Abell
“But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think – to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your ow