| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| You just have to care about what's around you | - Aaron Siskind |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | communicate more powerfully than either |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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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