| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography is about finding out what can |
| has to transform the photographer into an | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | edges around some facts, you change those |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| situation nearly as interesting as | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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