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If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail read more
If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output.
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the read more
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable read more
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man read more
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.
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but read more
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with read more
Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that read more
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
