Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. |
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. |
The best master printer |
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. |
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. |
The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. |
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. |
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. |
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. |
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. |
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. |
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. |
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. |
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. |
We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. |