| Photography is a major force in explaining | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | would be slowed down by painting or |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | 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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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| Adams | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | |
| You just have to care about what's around you | It is not the language of painters but the |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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