| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Photography is about finding out what can |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| Lange | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| It is not the language of painters but the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Weston |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| more you realize what can be photographed | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | 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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