| ...words and pictures can work together to | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| communicate more powerfully than either | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | Lange |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| would be slowed down by painting or | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | Adams |
| 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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