| Memory is very important, the memory of | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Adams |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | situation nearly as interesting as |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Allard |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| Stieglitz | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | - Sam Abell |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | 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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