| 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. |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | - Mary Ellen Mark |
| those that you are going to make. | |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | situation nearly as interesting as |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Allard |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Stieglitz | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | 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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