| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | - Aaron Siskind |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| communicate more powerfully than either | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | You just have to care about what's around you |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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