| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | Photography is about finding out what can |
| Allard | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| be made. - Sam Abell | 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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