| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| - Sam Abell | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | - Aaron Siskind |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | Photography is about finding out what can |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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