| ...words and pictures can work together to | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| communicate more powerfully than either | has to transform the photographer into an |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | 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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| It is not the language of painters but the | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | You just have to care about what's around you |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Adams |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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