| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | 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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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| You just have to care about what's around you | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| more you realize what can be photographed | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | - Ansel Adams |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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