“Fun is important. You should like the process and the subject. If you are bored or unhappy with your subject it will show up in the pictures. If in your heart of hearts you want to take pictures of kitties, take pictures of kitties.” – Alec Soth
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Why should you care what I do?
Photography is not magic. Though being in the darkroom at times can be “magical”. It is not mysterious, enchanting, spiritual, supernatural, conjuring, or sorcery. Though the process can be transforming to the practitioner. It’s practice can be enlightening. I can show you something I saw, and had feelings about. Hopefully you will feel or knowContinue reading “Why should you care what I do?”
Don’t forget.
Sometimes you feel like you work in a vacuum. Here you are, working, living, making a life in place like New York. People who don’t live here think, “Oh heck, how can you ever be alone with all those people everywhere?” Truth be told, in spite of everything, it is an extremely lonely place. YouContinue reading “Don’t forget.”
“There is nothing new except what is forgotten.” —Mademoiselle Bertin
“Hey…..”
“Hey, did you see that!” – Charles Harbutt
Man To Himself
“The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself”. – Edward Steichen
…move into the future
“…move into the future with some excitement rather than fear and with a more empowered sense of choices, rather than the sense of being of less value.” – Susan Meiselas http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/empowering-photographers-to-embrace-an-uncertain-future/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=2
“…the human face…”
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?” — Pablo Picasso
“One must not think…….”
“One must not think about doing things in life. One must do them” – Don McCullin
An Exclusive Interview with Keith Goldstein
An Exclusive Interview with Keith Goldstein