| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
| | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | 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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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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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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