| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| has to transform the photographer into an | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | Adams |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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