| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| would be slowed down by painting or | - Edward Steichen |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | world about you, and trust to your own |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| You just have to care about what's around you | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | - Ansel Adams |
| 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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