| No place is boring, if you've had a good | One should really use the camera as though |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | - Dorothea Lange |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| situation nearly as interesting as | - Sam Abell |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | 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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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Photography is about finding out what can |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| Stieglitz | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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