| Memory is very important, the memory of | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Weston |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Stieglitz |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| more you realize what can be photographed | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
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