| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| has to transform the photographer into an | world about you, and trust to your own |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | - Ansel Adams |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| situation nearly as interesting as | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
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