| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| more you realize what can be photographed | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| edges around some facts, you change those | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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