| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Photography is about finding out what can |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| situation nearly as interesting as | edges around some facts, you change those |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| Allard | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
| | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Weston |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | 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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