| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Photography is about finding out what can | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| edges around some facts, you change those | be made. - Sam Abell |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | - Aaron Siskind |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| more you realize what can be photographed | would be slowed down by painting or |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| You just have to care about what's around you | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | 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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