| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography is about finding out what can |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Adams | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| 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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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| Weston | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| 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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