| Photography takes an instant out of time, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Lange | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | more you realize what can be photographed |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | edges around some facts, you change those |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| | communicate more powerfully than either |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| 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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