| I think you have to have a real point of view | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | Adams |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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