| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| Stieglitz | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| has to transform the photographer into an | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| 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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