| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography is about finding out what can |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | edges around some facts, you change those |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
| | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | - Edward Steichen |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | has to transform the photographer into an |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Adams | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| more you realize what can be photographed | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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