| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| situation nearly as interesting as | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| Allard | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| - Aaron Siskind | - Edward Steichen |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is about finding out what can |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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