| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| has to transform the photographer into an | communicate more powerfully than either |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| - Sam Abell | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| 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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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | - Aaron Siskind |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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