| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Photography is about finding out what can |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| be made. - Sam Abell | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | more you realize what can be photographed |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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