| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is about finding out what can |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| - Aaron Siskind | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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