| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| Allard | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| 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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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | would be slowed down by painting or |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | |
| Stieglitz | 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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