| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| 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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| One should really use the camera as though | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| - Dorothea Lange | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | - Ansel Adams |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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