| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography is about finding out what can |
| has to transform the photographer into an | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | edges around some facts, you change those |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| would be slowed down by painting or | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | situation nearly as interesting as |
| be made. - Sam Abell | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Adams |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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