| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Lange | 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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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Photography is about finding out what can |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | edges around some facts, you change those |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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