| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| Stieglitz | 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 knows how to authenticate its | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | Allard |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Adams |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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