| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | Photography is about finding out what can |
| Stieglitz | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Weston |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | One should really use the camera as though |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | 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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