| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| situation nearly as interesting as | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
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San Francisco |
San Diego |
Phoenix |
Columbus |
Dothan |
Clinton Township |
Boynton Beach |
Pasadena |
Bethesda |
Highland Park |
Bremerton |
Arnold |
Jacksonville |
Rutland |
Beatrice |
Searcy |
Norwalk |
Charlotte |
Newark |
Hartford |
Walland |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | Photography is about finding out what can |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | edges around some facts, you change those |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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