| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| more you realize what can be photographed | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | 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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