| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| situation nearly as interesting as | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| Allard | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | has to transform the photographer into an |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| world about you, and trust to your own | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| - Ansel Adams | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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