Editorial Photography Has To Be Energetic And

There Are Grander And More Sublime Landscapes - To Me. There Are More Compelling Cultures. But What Appeals To Me About Central Montana Is That The Combination Of Landscape And Lifestyle Is The Most Compelling I've Seen On This Earth. Small Mountain Ranges And Open Prairie, And Different Weather, Different Light, All Within A 360-degree View.

First Of All, I Appropriate Photographs.in Presenting The Richard Prince Photograph I Tried To Be As Neutral As I Could Be. I Put Down The Fact Of It. I Wanted It To Be The Same Thing He Wanted It To Be, An Open Ended Invitation To Think About Authorship, And Who Owns A Created Work. So I Pair It With My Appropriated Picture.

My Dad Had Been An Ardent Amateur Photographer, And He Taught Me To Compose A Photograph From The Back To The Front, And Then Populate The Picture.

I Was A Consultant For Kodak Back In The Late 80's. There Were Engineers There Who Told Me That In The Future, Most Photographs Would Be Taken On Telephones. They Weren't Able To Do Anything With That. They Were Engineers, Not Management.

The Class That I Teach Is Called "the Life Of A Photograph." It Takes Up The Question, Of The Billion Photographs That Were Taken Today, How Many Will Have A Life, And Why? So The New Reality Has Made The Question More Pertinent, Not Less Pertinent.