| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| You just have to care about what's around you | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | Photography is about finding out what can |
| | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | One should really use the camera as though |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Dorothea Lange |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | 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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