| ...words and pictures can work together to | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| communicate more powerfully than either | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
| | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| Photography is about finding out what can | Stieglitz |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| those that you are going to make. | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| That's life! - John Sexton | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Adams |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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