| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| more you realize what can be photographed | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | It is not the language of painters but the |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| - Edward Steichen | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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