| One should really use the camera as though | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| - Dorothea Lange | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | those that you are going to make. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | That's life! - John Sexton |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| be made. - Sam Abell | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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