top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
Standard
Customized
More
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."
Author Name
Personal Development
"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."
Thought
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
Beauty
"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth."
Earth
"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
Force
"I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."
Photography
"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
Optimism
"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants."
Man
"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
Art
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
Photography
"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding."
Art
bottom of page