| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | Stieglitz |
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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 |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | One should really use the camera as though |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| situation nearly as interesting as | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Allard | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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