| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Weston | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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 | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | Allard |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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