| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Adams | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| world about you, and trust to your own | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| - Ansel Adams | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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