| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | 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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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| - Edward Steichen | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | - Aaron Siskind |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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