| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | - Sam Abell |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| You just have to care about what's around you | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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