| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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