| ...words and pictures can work together to | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| communicate more powerfully than either | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| edges around some facts, you change those | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Allard |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | 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 | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | world about you, and trust to your own |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | - Ansel Adams |
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