| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | more you realize what can be photographed |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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Bellevue |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | - Edward Steichen |
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