| Memory is very important, the memory of | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Adams |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | You just have to care about what's around you |
| those that you are going to make. | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| That's life! - John Sexton | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | would be slowed down by painting or |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | 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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