| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| situation nearly as interesting as | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| | those that you are going to make. |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| more you realize what can be photographed | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | - Ansel Adams |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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