| One should really use the camera as though | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| - Dorothea Lange | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| situation nearly as interesting as | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| Allard | - Ansel Adams |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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