| Photography is a major force in explaining | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | situation nearly as interesting as |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Allard |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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