| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Adams |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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