As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight , feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, ’41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.
Some photographers take reality… , impose the domination of their own thought , spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly , a photograph to them is an instrument of love , revelation.
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