| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | 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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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | those that you are going to make. |
| situation nearly as interesting as | That's life! - John Sexton |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| has to transform the photographer into an | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | be made. - Sam Abell |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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