| I think you have to have a real point of view | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| edges around some facts, you change those | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | 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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| One should really use the camera as though | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| - Dorothea Lange | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Allard |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | You just have to care about what's around you |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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