| Photography knows how to authenticate its | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Weston |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| communicate more powerfully than either | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | 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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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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