| ...words and pictures can work together to | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| communicate more powerfully than either | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Allard |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | - Sam Abell |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| be made. - Sam Abell | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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