Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score , the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Dodging , burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
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, st , ing in their rooms , sheds , workshops, looking in , out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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