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  One should really use the camera as though    Memory is very important, the memory of  
  tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.     each photo taken, flowing at the same speed  
  - Dorothea Lange    as the event. During the work, you have to be  
      sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've  
  A mad, keen photographer needs to get out    captured everything, because afterwards it will  
  into the world and work and make mistakes.    be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson  
  - Sam Abell      
      Photography is about finding out what can  
  The difficulty with color is to go beyond the    happen in the frame. When you put four  
  fact that it's color to have it be not just a    edges around some facts, you change those  
  colorful picture but really be a picture about    facts. - Gary Winogrand  
  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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  You learn to see by practice. It's just like    "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the  
  playing tennis, you get better the more you    world about you, and trust to your own  
  play. The more you look around at things, the    reactions and convictions. Ask yourself:  
  more you see. The more you photograph, the    "Does this subject move me to feel, think  
  more you realize what can be photographed    and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own  
  and what can't be photographed. You just have    personal statement of what I feel and want to  
  to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter    convey - from the subject before me?"  
      - Ansel Adams  
  Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt      
      Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid  
      mental images of scenes I cared for and failed  
      to photograph. It is the edgy existence within  
      me of these unmade images that is the only  
      assurance that the best photographs are yet to  
      be made. - Sam Abell  

 
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