| Photography is a major force in explaining | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | 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 |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Weston | |
| | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | situation nearly as interesting as |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Allard |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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