| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | ...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 | |
| Adams | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| more you realize what can be photographed | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | Rowell |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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