| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| - Edward Steichen | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Photography is about finding out what can | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| edges around some facts, you change those | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | 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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