82 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography

• Beware of these two fallacies of photographic appreciation: 1) You like a photograph because you think/have been told that it is good. 2) You think a photograph is good because you like it.

For each image, I’d ask myself: What are the elements that make this good? Why did someone choose this image over the hundreds that must have been available? Technique was critical, that was obvious, but at this level, technique was a given. What elevated an image?

Good photographs conform to the rules. Really great photographs often break them.

• Words of wisdom for every photographer: “Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.” So said Goethe.