| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
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| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| 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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